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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
Actor
Art Collector
Banjoist
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Performing Artist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Street Artist
Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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Never
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Comedy

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I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.
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I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.
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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
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It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.
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There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
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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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So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
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Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?
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Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.
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Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.
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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
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