Steve Martin Quotes

• I wish I could do a lot of things different. I’m not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I’d go, ‘Okay, I’ll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.’ Really. But I’ve made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, Different, Made

• I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it’s easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin’ man and the loner.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romantic, Alone

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in School, Ego

• Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It’s just always all in the way you use it. So there’s no – you can’t really blame anything on the technology. It’s just the way people use it, and it always has been.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Love, Technology

  Tags in Science

• Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I’d do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Home, Bad

• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Day, Real

• I’m tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tired, Period, Wasting

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

• Don’t have s*x man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men And Women

• I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was… an arctic wilderness.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reagan, Wilderness

• Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• Love is a promise delivered already broken.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Promise

• I believe that s*x is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful

• An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apologies, Gentleman
• 

  Be so good they can’t ignore you.

  Steve Martin

  Tags in Ignore, Good

• A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Obvious, Similes

• Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Humor

• Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Chaos

• Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Comedy

• Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

  Steve Martin

  Tags in Oscars

Steve Martin (69)

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

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