Steve Martin Quotes
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There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
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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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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
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Be so good they can't ignore you.
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It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then 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 if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.
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I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
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For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.
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...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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.
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If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
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He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn’t seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked.
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If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.
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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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You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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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!
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I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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... you're nuts but you're welcome here.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
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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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