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 had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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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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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I've never known more Jesus-serving, Jesus-loving, people-loving, people-serving folks on earth than right here in my hometown of Houston, Texas.
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I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.
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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.
