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
I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.
I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork...
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.
I think communication is so firsbern.
Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.
Teaching is a form of show business.
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.
They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.
I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart
If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.