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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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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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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This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.
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People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
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We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back.
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And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!
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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.
