Steve Martin Quotes
I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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A will finds a way.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
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'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'
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And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
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I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.