Steve Martin

“Love is a promise delivered already broken.”

“I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.”

“Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different...”

“Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.”

“Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I w...”

“I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years...”

“I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of...”

“I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.”

“I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.”

“'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with G...”

“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's j...”

“When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.”

“Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And pe...”

“I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.”

“When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.”

“With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.”

“No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So w...”

“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery...”

“Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.”

“I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.”