Steve Martin Quotes
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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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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 love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.
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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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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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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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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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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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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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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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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
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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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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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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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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 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 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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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.