Steve Martin Quotes - Page 12

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• In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do work, it might be very concentrated, and it might be months where you're not really doing anything except maybe playing the banjo or writing something. You know, there's a lot of time in the day if you're not working 9 to 5.

  Steve Martin

  Jobs, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Adventure, Levels

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• No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Writing, People

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• She was feeling her bohemian oats.

  Steve Martin

  Oats, Feelings, Bohemian

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

  Steve Martin

  Squares, Doe, Done

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.

  Steve Martin

  Practice, People, Car

  "Q&A: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell". Interview with Kyle Anderson, ew.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

  Steve Martin

  Beautiful, Twenties

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Half, Way, Comedy

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

  Steve Martin

  Phones, Creating, Acting

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• I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

  Steve Martin

  Comedian, Knows

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Challenges, Twenties

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• The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.

  Steve Martin

  Bullying, Hurt, Years

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• I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Art, Father

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Joy

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• Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey

  Steve Martin

  Men, Jerk, Lord

  "The Jerk". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a ­vibrancy to it 50 years from now.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Years, People

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• Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

  Steve Martin

  Love Is, Fearless, Rays

  Steve Martin (2000). “Shopgirl: A Novella”, Hyperion

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• The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Doctors, Operations

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• I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.

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  Beautiful, Regret, Moving

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• The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

  Steve Martin

  Beautiful, Writing, Editors

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• I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

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  Kids, Taught, Comedy

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• So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

  Steve Martin

  Wicked, Details, Standing Out

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• 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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  Art, Children, Thinking

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• I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.

  Steve Martin

  Today, Firsts, Comedy

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• 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

  Art, Sex, Real

  "Steve Martin on Objects of Beauty". Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. December 5, 2010.

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