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With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.
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I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.
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To me, torture would be, I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck. Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
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Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
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If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
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So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
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I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film is always what a critic writes, and the fun of a film or the emotion of a film is what the audience feels.
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To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!
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It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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Mirabelle is attractive it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.
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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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she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
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I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
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Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, This is only published because he's a celebrity.
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