Steve Martin Quotes
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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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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.
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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 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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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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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 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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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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I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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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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She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
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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 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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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
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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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If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.