“I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.”
Best
“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.”
AloneAll Quotes by Steve Martin
“You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.”
Art“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.”
Funny“Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.”
Business“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.”
Music“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.”
Science“'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.”
Funny“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.”
Alone“When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.”
Business“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
Funny“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
Art“Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!”
Funny“What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
Art“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
Money“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.”
Home“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.”
Life“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
Funny“I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.”
Art“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
Architecture“I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.”
Music