Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. "
Steve Martin
Dinosaurs
Did
Humans
Related Quotes:
" I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. "
Steve Martin
Head
Hate
Funny
" What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do. "
Steve Martin
Thank God
Great
God
" A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast. "
Steve Martin
You
Get
Fast
" '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
Funny
Think
Good
" I'm enamored with the art world. "
Steve Martin
World
Art
Art World
" 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
Kind
Music
World
" I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. "
Steve Martin
Tired
Wasting
Will
" L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends. "
Steve Martin
See
Think
You
" I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. "
Steve Martin
Hard
Think
Air
" I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? "
Steve Martin
Accept
Will
Street
" You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it. "
Steve Martin
Whatever
Want
Focused
" I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians. "
Steve Martin
Think
School
Loved
" Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn. "
Steve Martin
Start
Band
Experience
" I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them. "
Steve Martin
Thought
Rest
Play
" What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny. "
Steve Martin
Skinny
Short
Democrats
" I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating. "
Steve Martin
People
Experience
Life
" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "
Steve Martin
Music
Talking
Architecture
" The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. "
Steve Martin
Something
American
Past
" 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; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are. "
Steve Martin
Way
You
First
" I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night. "
Steve Martin
Thought
Success
Goal
" 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
Like
Punch
Radio
" With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. "
Steve Martin
More
Comedy
Never
" I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. "
Steve Martin
Chimney
Shot
Perfectly
" Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually. "
Steve Martin
Change
Think
People
" 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
View
Music
Good
" 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
Day
Friend
Love
" 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
Like
Only
Out
" Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven. "
Steve Martin
Only
Own
Reward
" No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely. "
Steve Martin
Writing
Music
Myself
" I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. "
Steve Martin
Detail
Working
Sing