Steve Martin Quotes
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
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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 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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Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
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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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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
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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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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.
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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.
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A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
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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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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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I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?
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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
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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.