Steve Martin Quotes

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

Steve Martin

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• Audience
• Touching
• Animated

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• When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Music
  • Find

• I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Saying

• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
  • School
  • High
  • Magic

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • You
  • Easy

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Remember
  • Hand
  • Son

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Walking
  • New York

• I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Care

• On the whole, when I travel to different countries, I like to find the hidden places, so I tend to avoid the cities - but in terms of the ease of getting about, finding what you need, the excitement, that undercurrent of whatever you want it to be, it's got to be London.

  

  Will Tudor
  • Travel
  • Places
  • Countries

• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  

  John Travolta
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

  

  David Alan Harvey
  • Film
  • Creative
  • Danger

• I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Touching