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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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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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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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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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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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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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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All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
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I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
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For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.
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The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.
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Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
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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.
