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. (Steve Martin)
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. (Steve Martin)
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. (Steve Martin)
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. (Steve Martin)
All of those things make it look like a really hard transaction to pull off. But it can be done. (Steve Martin)
Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy. (Steve Martin)
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. (Steve Martin)
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)
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true. (Steve Martin)
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. (Steve Martin)
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. (Steve Martin)
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. (Steve Martin)
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! (Steve Martin)
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. (Steve Martin)
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. (Steve Martin)