Steve Martin Short Quotes

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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

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

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

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

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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

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You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.

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You know that look women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

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I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

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Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can't lift it.

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When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

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The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

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She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

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Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

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These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

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So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

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I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.

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Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?

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She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

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I have found that — just as in real life — imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

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People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director."

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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

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How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

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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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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

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Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

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