Famous Steve Martin Quotes

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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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.
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
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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.
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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
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