Steve Martin Quotes
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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
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.
— 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
If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
— 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
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."
Steve Martin — Brenda Sorrels
Steve Martin — Brenda Sorrels
When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
— David Steinberg
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
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
just as in real life
imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience. — 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
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
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
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
Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.
— 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
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
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
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
Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.
— Steve Martin