Steve Martin Quotes
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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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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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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
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Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.
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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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It's pain that changes our lives.
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I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.
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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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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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When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.
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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 find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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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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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.
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A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
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As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
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Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
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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 actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.