Top 100 Quotes About Steve Martin
#1. Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Criss Angel
#2. I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.
Maria Bamford
#3. I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
Beyonce Knowles
#4. When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
David Steinberg
#5. Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
Claire Danes
#6. I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
Hank Azaria
#7. I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
Pete Hamill
#8. That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.
Al Pacino
#9. I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.
Alexandra Daddario
#10. Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
Chris Hardwick
#11. When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.
Marc Maron
#12. I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.
Bonnie Tyler
#13. Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.
Mike Nichols
#14. Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.
Jason Schwartzman
#16. Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
Anthony LaPaglia
#17. I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.
Margaret Cho
#18. The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Ellen DeGeneres
#19. 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.
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#20. My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
Gary McCord
#21. Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.
Chris Hardwick
#22. Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.
Jeff Garlin
#23. The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
Jeff Koons
#24. I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.
Jason Schwartzman
#25. It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.
Mike Nichols
#26. It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.
Karen Russell
#27. I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.
Rob Delaney
#28. I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.
Carrot Top
#29. All of our heroes did silly stuff early and got more serious as time went on. Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray. They got older, wiser, and made different choices.
Akiva Schaffer
#30. One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.
Baron Vaughn
#31. I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.
Chris Pratt
#32. There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.
Dick Van Dyke
#33. Always keep a litter bag in your car." -- Steve Martin
Dave Conifer
#34. My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
Hank Azaria
#35. I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
Steve Buscemi
#36. I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
Steve Martin
#37. Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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#38. So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.
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#39. I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was ... an arctic wilderness.
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#40. 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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#41. It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.
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#42. Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
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#43. Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
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#44. Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.
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#45. Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
Alvin Martin
#46. You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
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#47. People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
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#48. Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
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#49. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
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#50. Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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#51. I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
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#52. Somewhere in the world is ... The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
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#53. I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language ... Apache.
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#54. Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.
Martin Samuel
#56. It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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#57. I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart
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#58. I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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#59. There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
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#60. I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.
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#61. I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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#62. I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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#63. I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
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#64. With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.
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#66. Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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#67. 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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#68. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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#69. 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.
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#70. As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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#72. I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl's leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.
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#73. You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
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#74. I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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#77. I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
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#78. An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.
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#79. I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
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#80. It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.
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#81. A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell.
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#82. I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?
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#83. I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.
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#84. I gave my cat a bath the other day ... they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that ...
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#85. Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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#86. I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
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#87. Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
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#88. Now you see ... they' re not fit for humans ... " "Put them on me.
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#89. Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.
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#90. Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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#91. I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.
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#92. Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
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#93. She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably
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#94. I see other people crossing the street at the curb and I don't know how they can do it.
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#95. Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
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#96. Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting ... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.
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#97. First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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#98. 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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#99. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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#100. 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
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