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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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 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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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.
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Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.
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The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
