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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.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Waco
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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 like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.
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The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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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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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
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Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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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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Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.
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You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.
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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
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...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.
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It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.
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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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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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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.
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