Steve Martin Quotes
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There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
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I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.
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I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.
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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
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I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.
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Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
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There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?
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The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.
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Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.
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I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.
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...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
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Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
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What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.
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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
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I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.