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" I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it. "
Steve Martin
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Myself
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" 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. "
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" With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. "
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" There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world. "
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" I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. "
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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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" Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. "
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" I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate. "
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" Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. "
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" 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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" The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. "
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" 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. "
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Think
You
" It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. "
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" Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. "
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Business
Big
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" I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore. "
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" 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
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" '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. "
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Funny
Think
Good
" When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was. "
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Risk
Thought
Heart
" 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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" 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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" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "
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Architecture
" 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. "
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" 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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" I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.' "
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Reading
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" I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. "
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Believe
Money
Natural
" 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. "
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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; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are. "
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" I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. "
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