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Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Waco
Texas
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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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Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
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Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.
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...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.
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Lord loves a workin' man don't trust whitey
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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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There are few takers for the quiet heart.
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
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She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.
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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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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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