Steve Martin Quotes
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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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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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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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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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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.’
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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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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 like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.
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When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.
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I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
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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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I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.
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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.
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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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Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.