Steve Martin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Steve Martin
Steve Martin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.
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.
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork ...
I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult truths;
What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny.
When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language ... Apache.
What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality component is helplessness?
There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.
I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
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You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
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.
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was ... an arctic wilderness.
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.
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
The banjo is such a happy instrument
you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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?
I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?
There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
At least Clarissa knows I'm benign. But that is not an adjective one wants to throw around about one's spouse: This is my husband. He's benign.
I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.
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.
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
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.
College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.