Steve Martin Quotes
Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.
Steve Martin
Quotes to Explore
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
Dana Carvey
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
Gabriel Byrne
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
Rachel Sklar
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
Ted Turner
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
Ian McShane
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
Kaskade
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
Tabrett Bethell
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
Vince McMahon
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
Kaley Cuoco
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
Washed Out
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Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
Randeep Hooda
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
Sacheen Littlefeather
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. Salinger
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I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.
Venus Williams
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What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never totally metaphysical; it is never a 'destiny' but always a fact with some kind of historical reference. To put an object on a base means to monumentalize it, to make everyone aware it exists.
Ettore Sottsass
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
Ram Dass
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Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to 'release' the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch.
Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.
Steve Martin
