Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martinis an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician. Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, Martin has become a successful actor, as well as an author, playwright, pianist and banjo player,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 August 1945
CountryUnited States of America
How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
It's pain that changes our lives.
Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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.
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.
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.
You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.