Steve Martin Quotes
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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
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I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.
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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 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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You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.
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I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.
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Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.
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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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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.
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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 guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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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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All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
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... you're nuts but you're welcome here.
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.
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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
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Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.