Steve Martin Quotes - Page 14

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• 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

  Thinking, Play, People

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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.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Accomplishment, Acting

  "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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• I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Steve Martin - a man with two reigns" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2011.

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• 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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  Long, Worry, Had Enough

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• Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.

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  Long, Laughing, Feelings

  "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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• You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

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  Opportunity, People, Income

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• The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

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  Light, Sight, Illumination

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

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  Magic, Elements, Firsts

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• Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

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  Winning, Years, Hot

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• I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Comedian, Listening

  "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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• Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

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  Bad Relationship, Relationships Ending, Failed Relationship

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• she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

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  Rose, Skins, Forgiven

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

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  Girl, Firsts, Attractive

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

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• With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

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  Three, Delicacy, Obsession

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