Steve Martin Quotes
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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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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'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.
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I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.
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You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
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I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
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I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.
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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
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I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.
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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
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I am a wild and crazy guy!
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Be so good they can't ignore you.
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Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...
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Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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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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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.