Steve Martin

Steve Martin

"Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way."
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"Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way."
Steve Martin
"Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."
Steve Martin
"Be undeniably good."
Steve Martin
"Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naรฏvetรฉ, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do."
Steve Martin Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."
Steve Martin
"When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore."
Steve Martin
"I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner."
Steve Martin
"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."
Steve Martin
"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."
Steve Martin
"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"
Steve Martin
"Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually."
Steve Martin
"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
Steve Martin
"I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers."
Steve Martin
"I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic."
Steve Martin
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
Steve Martin
"I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been."
Steve Martin
"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
Steve Martin
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
Steve Martin
"Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels."
Steve Martin
"Be so good they canโ€™t ignore you."
Steve Martin
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