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 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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If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.
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Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
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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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As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
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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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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 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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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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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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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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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 actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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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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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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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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When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
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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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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.