Steve Martin Quotes

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Steve Martin

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 14, 1945

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

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

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

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

'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

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

Well, excuuuuuse me!

Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Steve Martin

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

Steve Martin

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

Steve Martin

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