Steve Martin Quotes
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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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After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'
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I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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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.
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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Or is it that I think too much?
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I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.
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Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
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I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.
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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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Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.
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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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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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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
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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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A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
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Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
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I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.
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I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.