With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.
STEVE MARTINBoy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
More Steve Martin Quotes
-
-
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN -
I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
STEVE MARTIN -
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.
STEVE MARTIN -
It’s pain that changes our lives.
STEVE MARTIN -
Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
STEVE MARTIN -
Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it’s almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
STEVE MARTIN -
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
STEVE MARTIN -
Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
STEVE MARTIN -
Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTIN -
The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
STEVE MARTIN -
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
STEVE MARTIN -
I love money. I love everything about it.
STEVE MARTIN -
No art comes from the conscious mind.
STEVE MARTIN -
How many people have never raised their hand before?
STEVE MARTIN -
I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
STEVE MARTIN