Steve Martin Quotes

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between mom...

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding t...

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naï...

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This ...

both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels ...

And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries...

People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally ...

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

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

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if y...

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - y...

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes...

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact...

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to...

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

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be...

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you...

Be so good they can't ignore you.

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it s...

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier t...

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ...

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

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

Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.

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

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of soc...

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

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever h...

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as mu...

If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forw...