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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
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Banjoist
Comedian
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Film Producer
Musician
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Waco
Texas
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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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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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I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.
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I think communication is so firsbern.
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If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
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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 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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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over.
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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
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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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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 always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.
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I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
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People come up to me and say Steve, what is film editing? And I say How should I know? You're the director.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.
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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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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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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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