Steve Martin Quotes
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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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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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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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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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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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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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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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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.
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Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.
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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 believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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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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If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.
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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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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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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.