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Steve Martin

(1945) Television Actor United States

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Steve Martin is a television actor from the United States, best known for An Object of Beauty.

Quick Facts About Steve Martin

Born: August 14, 1945
Nationality: United States
Profession: Television Actor
Notable works: An Object of Beauty
Spouse: Victoria Tennant

About Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. Martin received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Honorary Academy Award in 2013, and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

AFI Life Achievement Award Academy Honorary Award Disney Legends Writers Guild of America Award Kennedy Center Honors Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Quotes by Steve Martin · Page 4

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you…

Audience

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Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

Sex

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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Kissing

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I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you…

Customers

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In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi,…

Drunk

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...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

Aspens

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Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Emotion

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“Be courteous, kind, and forgiving. Be gentle and peaceful each day. Be warm and human and grateful, And have a good thing…

Good thing

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I feel like I've been through a lot. I've survived a lot, and I'm still creative. And I'm still working, which makes…

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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

Humor

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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Father

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All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

Honest

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Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes…

Audience

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“What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it?…

Laughter

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Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke

Art

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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

Crazy

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It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.

Matter

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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Comedy

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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Big business

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I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

Arctic

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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Life

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I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film…

Audience

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I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

Astrology

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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.…

Always

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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

Beautiful

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