Steve Martin Quotes
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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 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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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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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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It's pain that changes our lives.
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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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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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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.
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I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.
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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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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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I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.
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Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.
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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 really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.
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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.
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I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
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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.
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No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
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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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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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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.’