Steve Martin Quotes

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

Funny, Sunshine, Night

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.
Steve Martin

Movies, Life, Enough

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve Martin

Sex, Pretty, Start

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve Martin

Funny, Everything, Different

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin

Funny, Hate, Woman

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin

Music, Talking, Dancing

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

Someone, Writing, Real

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve Martin

Money, Beautiful, Sex

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.
Steve Martin

Laughter, Real, Laugh

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin

Art, Laugh, Making

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
Steve Martin

Tired, Period, Wasting

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
Steve Martin

Woman, Another, She

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?
Steve Martin

Different, Made, Wish

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

Wrong, Might, Gentleman

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
Steve Martin

Nothing, Done, Popular

Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Steve Martin

Love, Broken, Promise

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Steve Martin

Funny, Order, Chaos

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin

Art, Idiot, Become

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
Steve Martin

Work, Themselves, Ok

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
Steve Martin

Home, Bad, Father

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.
Steve Martin

Love, Science, Technology

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin

Country, Once, Someday

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin

Success, Learning, Comedy

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.
Steve Martin

Life, School, Ego

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin

Nothing, Pretty, Started

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Nationality: American

Born: August 14, 1945

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