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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
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Film Producer
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Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.
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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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There are few takers for the quiet heart.
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The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.
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So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
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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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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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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 took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
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You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
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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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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
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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 had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
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Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.
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. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . . Put them on me.
Steve Martin
I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
Steve Martin
Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.
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I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
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