Steve Martin
As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.Collection: Song
It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.Collection: Thinking
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.Collection: Art
The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.Collection: Mother
It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.Collection: Painting
You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.Collection: Funny
Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.Collection: Funny
I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.Collection: Funny
It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.Collection: Funny
I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.Collection: Fun
It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.Collection: Fall
I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.Collection: Tv Shows
Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.Collection: Happy Alone
In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!Collection: Moving
. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.Collection: Fit
It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.Collection: Believe
I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?Collection: Light
I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.Collection: Thinking
...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.Collection: Men
I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.Collection: Musical
Relationships end, but they don't end your life.Collection: Bad Relationship
She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Being Yourself
Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.Collection: Attitude
I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.Collection: Respect
So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.Collection: Character
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.Collection: Scoundrels
You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Art
Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.Collection: Long
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.Collection: Men
I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.Collection: Comedian
I don't watch myself generally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.Collection: Allies
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.Collection: Years
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whiteyCollection: Men
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.Collection: Cat
Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.Collection: Love Is
I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.Collection: Thinking
I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.Collection: Imagination
Or is it that I think too much?Collection: Thinking
If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.Collection: Tired
I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.Collection: Social
She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.Collection: Air
I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.Collection: Thinking
A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.Collection: Jokes
So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.Collection: Adventure
I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?Collection: Fun
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.Collection: Appreciation
Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."Collection: Criticism