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" 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
Know
Life
You
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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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Love
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Thank God
Great
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" I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. "
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Laugh
You
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" 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. "
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Friend
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" 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. "
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" The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. "
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You
See
" 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
" 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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Kind
Music
World
" 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
" With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. "
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More
Comedy
Never
" 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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" 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
" I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. "
Steve Martin
Chimney
Shot
Perfectly
" It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. "
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Way
Art
Function
" I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it. "
Steve Martin
Like
Credit
Feel
" A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. "
Steve Martin
Know
Sunshine
You
" 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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Right
Wish
You
" 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 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
" The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome. "
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Welcome
Community
Judge
" Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. "
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Order
Midst
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" An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. "
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He
Dignity
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" Love is a promise delivered already broken. "
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Love
" What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. "
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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 Believe
Wilderness
Country
" Nothing I do is done by popular demand. "
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Popular
Nothing
Demand
" I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. "
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You
My Own
Book
" Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! "
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Word
Funny
Boy