Steve Martin

Bekannte Zitate von Steve Martin

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

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

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.

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.

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

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.

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, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

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

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.