Steve Martin Quotes
With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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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.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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I am happy with the response I am receiving for 'Kaabil.' Audiences' love is what we work for, after all.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.
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I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.
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When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.
