You Quotes by Steve Martin

12 You quotes by Steve Martin

Steve’s take on “You” is a blend of absurdity and earnestness, delivered in his signature off‑beat style. In just a dozen snippets you’ll feel his playful wisdom nudging you to laugh at the quirks of identity.

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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on…

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Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

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A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.

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L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in…

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I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off…

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Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory…

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I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you…

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Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it.…

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Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It…

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The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling…

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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around…

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I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone…

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“It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards…

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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

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“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank…

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I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear,…

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“Be undeniably good.”

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When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.

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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has…

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“Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was…

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At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions…

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You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

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The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

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My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the…

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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer…

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