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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.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.
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