Steve Martin Quotes - Page 6

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• I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

  Steve Martin

  Heart, Quiet, Understood

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

  Steve Martin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Gentleman

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• You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

  Steve Martin

  Doors, House, Bigs

  "L.A. Story". www.imdb.com. February 8, 1991.

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• I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Feb 29, 2012

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• ...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

  Steve Martin

  Hurt, Heart, Events

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

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• 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.

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• Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

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  Baseball, Men, Hollywood

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• Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

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  Yeah, Wells, Written

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• The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

  Steve Martin

  People, Firsts, Banjos

  "Steve Martin: Comedian Takes Banjo Seriously". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 4, 2009.

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• 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

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• Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

  Steve Martin

  Kids, Thinking, Glasses

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• At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.

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  Writing, Emotional, Skills

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• I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

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  Book, Men, Parent

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

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  Humble, Opportunity, Missing

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

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• My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

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  Dirty, House, Design

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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• A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

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  Opportunity, Challenges, Trying

  "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 never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

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  Gun, Middle Management, Forever

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• 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 someway.

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  Way, Psychological, Knows

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

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• In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.

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  Girl, Morning, Night

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• Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

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  Morning, People, Mind

  "The Steve Martin Pink Panther 2 Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 31, 2009.

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• When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’

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  People, Answers, Cuz

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• The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

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  Doubters, Steps, Heroic

  "Born Standing Up". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.

  Steve Martin

  Editing, Years, People

  "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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• She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

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  Warfare, Care, Psychological

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

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• Or is it that I think too much?

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  Thinking, Too Much

  "The Pleasure of My Company". Book by Steve Martin, www.today.com. 2003.

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