Steve Martin citations

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“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”

“We've had some fun tonight… considering we're all gonnasomeday.”

“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”

“She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.”

“The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.”

“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”

“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”

“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”

“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.”

“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”

“The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.”

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

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
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“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”

“Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.”

“A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.”

“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.”

“Or is it that I think too much?”

“Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.”

“Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.”

“Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.”

“The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.”

“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”

“There are few takers for the quiet heart.”

“Always… no wait… never…..”

“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

“… just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.”

“With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.”

“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”