Steve Martin Quotes (55 Quotes)

Claire is actually younger in life than the role calls for, but her emotional knowledge continued to astound me. There was never any uneasiness between us in any of the delicate scenes we had to do.

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

There was a time in my life when I was very interested in relationship psychology. Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

All of those things make it look like a really hard transaction to pull off. But it can be done.

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy.

That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age.

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.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it -- if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

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.

When we started building out here, we knew this was where we were headed. After we built our first one, we realized a lot of our custom homes would have qualified for Built Green. Some of it's the quality of work, some of it's what the market entails for this type of home It's what the buyers expect.

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

Last year's Breeders' Futurity purse was due to increased nominations for the New York-bred program and it has continued to go up. That's why we raised the estimation to 200,000 for this year. We had previously estimated it at 100,000 and, obviously, the last two years it's completely overshot that, so we're anticipating the same type of scenario this year.

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

It takes time though for owners and trainers to invest that additional purse money to start cultivating that better racing product.

We're going to look at it again in June, we just want to make sure we when we do increase purses we can sustain it, we wouldn't want to have to go back once we increase it.

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

On his breakthrough 1977 album Let's Get Small, ... There's a million people onstage and everything's moving real fast and you can't understand a word they say but it doesn't matter and you just sit there and go, 'Wow Look at the (breasts) I'll bet there's 57 (breasts) up there'

I'm happy with how the day has gone and we've made positive steps forward each time I've gone out. My lap times have also been good and consistent from the outset, so it's good to be on the pace and feeling back at full health and fitness to really 'ride' the bike.

By expressing his heart, anger and joy, Richard Pryor took comedy to its highest form.

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

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.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

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

I am really happy to stay with FPR for next year, especially after the amount of progress that we have made. We are now consistently in the top ten and I believe we have not finished improving the bike yet. The guys that I have been working with have showed me a whole new level of professionalism and that has been a major influence in my decision.

Right now we're teaching them that the game is fun. If they learn it's fun, they always go back to it again in clinics and in schools.

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

It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

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

It's kind of a dream come true, because we've always loved these films. We've loved this character, and now we have the opportunity to not remake the movie, but to play these characters. It's like playing Hamlet.

He had a tendency that, when he got down against a real high level of competition, hed melt.

We're absolutely thrilled to be named as one of the Best Companies to Work for in Texas. It's an honor to be part of an incredible team that's committed to exceeding our clients' expectations and to making our agency a fun and creative place to come to every day.

While my fervent hope is we can get the entire amount ... I think we need to have some idea what we would lose.

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

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

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

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.

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

It's almost as if someone took a saltine cracker, crumbled it and threw it in the air. These casinos were barges, on the water, and they were destroyed.

I believe in eight of the ten commandments and I believe in going to church every Sunday unless there's a game on

I just brush it off and try to make a joke about it. Over the years it's been interesting.

I gave my cat a bath the other day. . .they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, if was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that. . .

I'd thought I'd spend time with the kids so they don't turn out weird.

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

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

First the doctor told me the good news I was going to have a disease named after me.

It's hard to find the right expression for this, but her beauty that she keeps within, you know The character of Mirabelle really requires stillness and no artifice, and that's what she has.

Well, excuuuuuse me!