Steve Martin Quotes
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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
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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 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 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 don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.
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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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She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
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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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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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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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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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It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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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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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.
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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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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.