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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
Art Collector
Banjoist
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Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
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Street Artist
Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
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To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
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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.
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I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.
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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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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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My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.
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I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
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She didn't even finish her last sentence it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.
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She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
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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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You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.
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The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.
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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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