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I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Steve Martin
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their notes and see what they've said. I don't criticize myself for making blunders here and there, because it's just natural. You write in chunks, and you may not remember that that sentence you wrote yesterday had the same word repeated three times. I do enjoy that. I love the feeling of repairing. Repairing is really nice.
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I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
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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 can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.
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It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.
Steve Martin
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I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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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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College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin
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These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
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Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.
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People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
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Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
Steve Martin
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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
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I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.
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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
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It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.
Steve Martin