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" I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. "
Steve Martin
Tired
Wasting
Will
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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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People
Men
World
" I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers. "
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Funny
Thought
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" Love is a promise delivered already broken. "
Steve Martin
Promise
Love Is
Love
" 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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Well
Get
Work
" Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming. "
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Know
Hard
Kind
" 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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View
Music
Good
" I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. "
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Detail
Working
Sing
" I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response. "
Steve Martin
You
Yourself
Off
" I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book. "
Steve Martin
Book
Say
Thought
" I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving. "
Steve Martin
Princeton
Always
Fan
" I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. "
Steve Martin
Believe
Money
Natural
" I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. "
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Mistake
Worst
Business
" 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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Believe
Time
You
" 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. "
Steve Martin
Me
Up
Woman
" Well, excuuuuuse me! "
Steve Martin
Well
Me
" 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
Stage
Myself
Doing
" 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. "
Steve Martin
Way
Why
Truth
" 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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See
Think
You
" 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 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
" 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. "
Steve Martin
Me
You
Mind
" 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. "
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People
Experience
Life
" 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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Like
Only
Out
" Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. "
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Business
Big
Pretty
" 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. "
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Know
Life
You
" 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 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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Art
Out
Idiot
" I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. "
Steve Martin
Chimney
Shot
Perfectly
" 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. "
Steve Martin
Ego
Balance
Kind
" 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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Good
Opportunity
Me