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Comedy Quotes by Steve Martin
- I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy…
- Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
- I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came…
- I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
- Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
- What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
- With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
- In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and…
- I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in…
- Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
- I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
- When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage…
- My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth…
- Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
- Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke
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