Steve Martin Quotes
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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
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Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.
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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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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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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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To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
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There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.
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You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
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You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
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I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.
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Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
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I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
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Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
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So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.
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Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
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Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.
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There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.