Steve Martin Quotes
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Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.
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I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
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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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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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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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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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I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
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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 don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.
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Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."
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It's pain that changes our lives.
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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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I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.
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Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.
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Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
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It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.
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I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.
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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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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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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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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.