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
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.
I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.
I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
Comedy is not pretty.
Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.