Steve Martin Quotes
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
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I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
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Don Conroy was larger than life and there was never a room he entered that he left without making his mark. At some point in his life, he passed from being merely memorably to being legendary.
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We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
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The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.
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Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.
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You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
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Working with Olivia Colman has probably been the highlight of my career so far.
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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
