Steve Martin Quotes
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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
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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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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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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 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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All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
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I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.
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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 would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?
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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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He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn’t seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked.
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Love is a promise delivered already broken.
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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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 was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
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Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
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Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.
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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 thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.