Steve Martin Quotes
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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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I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
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she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
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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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introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
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When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?
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Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.
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Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.
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I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
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You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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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.
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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
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She was feeling her bohemian oats.
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It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.
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The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
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Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
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At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.
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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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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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The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.
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A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.