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. Steve Martin More Quotes by Steve Martin More Quotes From Steve Martin If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound. Steve Martin long-ago two thinking It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing. Steve Martin essentials shows doubt [her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me? Steve Martin color essence mind Ah, yes. I remember my first beer. Steve Martin beer remember firsts If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life. Steve Martin philosophy funny school My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them. Steve Martin design house dirty I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. Steve Martin punctuation tired letters The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps. Steve Martin heroic doubters steps Comedy is not pretty. Steve Martin not-pretty comedy I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing. Steve Martin light writing thinking My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. Steve Martin loss worry memories There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them. Steve Martin goggles inspirational night I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. Steve Martin running talking thinking '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. Steve Martin movie funny dirty Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated. Steve Martin romance falling-in-love firsts It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched. Steve Martin done two needs A day with out sun shine is like..........night Steve Martin shining sun night The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible. Steve Martin lonely self people Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny. Steve Martin glasses kids thinking 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. Steve Martin ballet looks art
