Steve Martin Quotes

• I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Music, Without

• I would get records by Earl Scruggs… I would tune my banjo down and I’d pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking… And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Book, Kind, Down

• I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Myself, Act, Books

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Day, School

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Book, Thought

• I thought ‘Borat’ was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn’t some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Thought, Comedy

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

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard, Writing, Songs

• 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.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Good, Beautiful, Emotional

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Great, Listen

• I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You’re playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It’s hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Myself, Hard, Fire

• I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Time, Believe, Career

• I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Works, Shot, Perfectly

• I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like ‘Letterman’ and ‘The View,’ and I’ve heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven’t felt any negativity toward me or my music.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Nice

• 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

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Learning, Did

• I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Someone, Why

• I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I’m working at it.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Still, Working, Actually

• ‘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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Good, Fun

• Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Different, Did, Walk

• With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you’re never off the hook.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Place, Off, Comedy

• When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Serious

Steve Martin (69)

Birth:	14th August, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Comedian, Musician, Playwriter, Producer

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