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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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
Barack Obama
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And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.
Carolyn Hax
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How much easier it would be if when you played them slowly in reverse the lyrics really did, as some hysterical parents feared, reveal satanic messages; if there were a backmasked secret order, however dark, instead of rage at emptiness.
Ben Lerner
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Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.
Ugo Betti
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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
