Steve Martin Quotes
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I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
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I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
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It's pain that changes our lives.
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Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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Love is a promise delivered already broken.
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The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.
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I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’
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A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
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To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.
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Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.
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I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.
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I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.
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Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.
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Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
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Or is it that I think too much?
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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
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Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.