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" I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. "
Steve Martin
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" I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing. "
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" 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. "
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" I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head. "
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" I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 some way. "
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Truth
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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You
" It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. "
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Art
Function
" Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. "
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Big
Pretty
" 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. "
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Me
Up
Woman
" I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. "
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Hard
Think
Air
" I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it. "
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Credit
Feel
" I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. "
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Chimney
Shot
Perfectly
" Love is a promise delivered already broken. "
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Love
" 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. "
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Ego
Balance
Kind
" I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. "
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Words
Finding
Good
" 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. "
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Only
Out
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Science
Technology
" Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys. "
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Think
Today
" I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. "
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Out
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" 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. "
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Music
World
" Well, excuuuuuse me! "
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" When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well. "
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" Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way. "
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