Steve Martin Quotes
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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I like children - fried.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I definitely at times notice a difference in service when I go out. You know, I can walk in to grab a cup of coffee or walk in to have lunch or dinner, and people definitely seem on their best behavior, which is funny, or I start to see people clean up around me, which I always find really, really amusing.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
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You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
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I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
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My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.
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I won't tell you that I've never been discouraged. Of course I have; as a human being, that's bound to happen.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
