Steve Martin Quotes
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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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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 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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When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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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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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.
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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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I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.
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She was feeling her bohemian oats.
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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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I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.
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I don't watch myself generÂally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.
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It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.
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Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.
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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 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.
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You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.
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Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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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.