Top 100 Quotes About Steve Martin
#1. I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
Steve Martin
#2. Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
Steve Martin
#3. 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.
Steve Martin
#4. I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was ... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin
#5. 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.
Steve Martin
#6. 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.
Steve Martin
#7. Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
Steve Martin
#8. 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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#9. Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.
Steve Martin
#10. Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
Alvin Martin
#11. 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.
Steve Martin
#12. 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
#13. People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
Steve Martin
#14. Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
Steve Martin
#15. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
Steve Martin
#16. Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin
#17. 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.
Steve Martin
#18. Somewhere in the world is ... The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
Steve Martin
#19. I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language ... Apache.
Steve Martin
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
Steve Martin
#24. I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart
Steve Martin
#25. I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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#26. 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
#27. 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.
Steve Martin
#28. When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
David Steinberg
#29. 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.
Steve Martin
#30. I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve Martin
#31. I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
Steve Martin
#32. I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve Martin
#33. 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.
Steve Martin
#35. Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
Steve Martin
#36. 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.
Steve Martin
#37. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin
#38. 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
#39. Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
Claire Danes
#40. As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
Steve Martin
#42. 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.
Steve Martin
#43. You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
Steve Martin
#44. I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
Steve Martin
#47. 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.
Steve Martin
#48. 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.
Steve Martin
#49. 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.
Steve Martin
#50. 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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#51. A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell.
Steve Martin
#52. 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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#53. 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.
Steve Martin
#54. 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 ...
Steve Martin
#55. Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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#56. 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.
Steve Martin
#57. 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
#58. 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.
Steve Martin
#59. Now you see ... they' re not fit for humans ... " "Put them on me.
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#60. Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
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#64. She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably
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#65. I see other people crossing the street at the curb and I don't know how they can do it.
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#66. I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
Pete Hamill
#67. 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.
Steve Martin
#68. 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.
Steve Martin
#69. 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
#70. First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve Martin
#71. The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.
Steve Martin
#72. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin
#73. '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.
Steve Martin
#74. I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
Steve Martin
#76. The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.
Steve Martin
#77. With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
Steve Martin
#78. I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
Steve Martin
#79. I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
Steve Martin
#80. I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.
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#81. Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.
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#82. Mirabelle, who never takes credit for her attractiveness, believes it is not she he is responding to, but rather something independent of her.
Steve Martin
#83. There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
Steve Martin
#84. I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.
Steve Martin
#85. ... when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable ...
Steve Martin
#86. I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.
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#87. Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.
Steve Martin
#88. 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.
Steve Martin
#89. 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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#90. I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.
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#92. Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.
Steve Martin
#93. You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
Steve Martin
#94. I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
Steve Martin
#95. You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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#96. She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
Steve Martin
#97. Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats, laughs) Good!
Steve Martin
#98. 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
#99. If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.
Steve Martin
#100. Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
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