Steve Martin

“I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one...”

“I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I love...”

“What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.”

“I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was s...”

“What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

“I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.”

“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind o...”

“Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.”

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.”

“L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and w...”

“I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.”

“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”