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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
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Film Producer
Musician
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Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'
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I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
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You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.
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Being on Twitter is like having a fern.
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I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
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When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
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There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.
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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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