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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
Art Collector
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Film Producer
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Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
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I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, I am Picasso. And I said, Well, so what?
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She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.
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Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.
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I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...
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It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.
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You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
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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.
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At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.
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How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars
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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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If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
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In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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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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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
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I am a wild and crazy guy!
Steve Martin
She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
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