Steve Martin Quotes

When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

Steve Martin

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• Audience
• Difficult
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• Awe

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• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Friends
  • Difficult
  • Him

• I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Think
  • Dance
  • Audience

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

  Tabrett Bethell
  • Audience
  • Just
  • Aim

• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • High
  • Political
  • Party

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • American
  • War
  • Party

• Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Audience

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • Party
  • Carry

• I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Important
  • Why
  • Party

• I feel like I get all the good parts of college, cause I just college hop on the weekends and party with them, but I don't have to do any of the school part or the work part.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Good
  • Work
  • School

• Digg will serve as a means of gathering metrics for third party websites, providing them insights into who's digging their content, who they are spreading it to.

  

  Kevin Rose
  • Party

• For dynamic energy, driving force, and discipline, the Russian Communist Party is unique the world over, perhaps even throughout history.

  

  Louis Fischer
  • World
  • History
  • Energy

• Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, "I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet." It was a case where it was like, "Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man."

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Audience
  • Artists
  • Musicians

• Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • Business
  • Movie

• More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Failure
  • Reaction
  • Individualism

• What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

  

  George Saunders
  • Regret
  • Kindness
  • Failures

• When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Party
  • Audience
  • Difficult