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When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. — Steve Martin

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film. — Steve Martin

All of life's riddles are answered in the movies. — Steve Martin

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — Steve Martin

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile. — Steve Martin

She started converting objects of beauty into objects of value. — Steve Martin

A young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs. — Steve Martin

No, no, I could never be a woman. I'd just stay at home and play with my breasts all day. — Steve Martin

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd. — Chris Pratt

If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him. — Steve Martin

We've had some fun tonight ... considering we're all gonna die someday. — Steve Martin

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me. — Steve Martin

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore. — Steve Martin

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

I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind. — Pete Hamill

... when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable ... — Steve Martin

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens. — Steve Martin

I think communication is so firsbern. — Steve Martin

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later. — Steve Martin

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else. — Steve Martin

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. — Steve Martin

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

Be so good they can't ignore you."
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When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy. — David Steinberg

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much. — Steve Martin

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars — Steve Martin

I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow. — Steve Martin

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny. — Steve Martin

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old. — Steve Martin

A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell. — Steve Martin

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night. — Steve Martin

I have found that
just as in real life
imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience. — Steve Martin

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither. — Steve Martin

To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable. — Steve Martin

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things. — Steve Martin

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks. — Alvin Martin

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. — Steve Martin

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes. — Steve Martin

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. — Steve Martin

The divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums. — Steve Martin

I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away. — Steve Martin

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. — Steve Martin

Now you see ... they' re not fit for humans ... " "Put them on me. — Steve Martin

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves ... well. — Steve Martin

He had no college dreams and hence no proximity to the challenge of new faces and ideas. — Steve Martin

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? — Steve Martin

I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life. — Steve Martin

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 play 25 banjo songs. — Steve Martin

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director. — Steve Martin

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. — Steve Martin

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

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday ... unless there's a game on. — Steve Martin

Somewhere in the world is ... The world's worst doctor and he could be yours. — Steve Martin

When you work in the glove department at Neiman's, you are selling things that nobody buys anymore. — Steve Martin

She appears sunny, a quality that Mirabelle can call upon only for special occasions. — Steve Martin

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. — Steve Martin

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life. — Steve Martin

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync. — Steve Martin

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases. — Steve Martin

We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region. — Steve Martin

Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built. — Steve Martin

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron. — Steve Martin

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin. — Maureen McCormick

The banjo is such a happy instrument
you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. — Steve Martin

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. — Steve Martin

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully. — Jason Schwartzman

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. — Steve Martin

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey. — Dick Van Dyke

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. — Steve Martin

As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves — Steve Martin

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women. — Steve Martin

I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything. — Steve Martin

Martin Jol is literally a dead man walking — Steve Claridge

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

The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart? — Steve Martin

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin

It's so beautiful where I am today that it makes me wonder where I am. — Steve Martin

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener! — Steve Martin

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. — Steve Martin

There are few takers for the quiet heart. — Steve Martin

Nothing I do is done by popular demand. — Steve Martin

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea. — Steve Martin

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great. — Margaret Cho

A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — Steve Martin

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

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. — Steve Martin

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management. — Steve Martin

I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies. — Beyonce Knowles

I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger. — Steve Martin

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door — Steve Martin

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it: The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo. — Steve Martin

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

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm. — Steve Martin

I'm enamored with the art world. — Steve Martin

I am a wild and crazy guy! — Steve Martin

They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant. — Steve Martin

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin

Ah, yes. I remember my first beer. — Steve Martin