Steve Martin Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Comedy is not pretty.

  Steve Martin

  Comedy, Not Pretty

• What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

  Steve Martin

  Art, People, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

  Steve Martin

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Persistence

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Nov 15, 2011

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

  Steve Martin

  Hook, Places To Go, Comedy

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

• I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

  Steve Martin

  Love, Funny, Witty

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Sep 22, 2011

• My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

  Steve Martin

  Memories, Loss, Worry

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Boys, Different

• 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

  Years, Four, Comedy

  "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

• I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Dragons, Saws

• 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

  Magic, Musical, Littles

• In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

  Steve Martin

  Song, Play, Comedy

• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Adventure, Levels

• I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Littles, Comedy

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

  Steve Martin

  May, Comedy, Bigs

• Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

  Steve Martin

  Comedy, Distortion, Happenings

  Steve Martin (2007). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

• Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

  Steve Martin

  Humble, Opportunity, Missing

  "Steve Martin Interview - The Pink Panther 2". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 4, 2009.

• I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Musical, Serious, Comedy

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

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Scripts, Comedy

  "All about my father" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

• I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Play, Long

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

• 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

• With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Ideas, Comedy

• 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

  Beautiful, Regret, Moving

• Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Comedy, Shops

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Kids, Taught, Comedy

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