Steve Martin – Quotes Crazy

When your hobbies get in the way of your work – thats OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves… well. – Steve Martin

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. Its just always all in the way you use it. So theres no – you cant really blame anything on the technology. Its just the way people use it, and it always has been. – Steve Martin

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, theres a lot of bluegrass there. – Steve Martin

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like Letterman and The View, and Ive heard nice things about being able to do that. I really havent felt any negativity toward me or my music. – Steve Martin

You know what your problem is, its that you havent seen enough movies – all of lifes riddles are answered in the movies. – Steve Martin

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 worked at Disneyland, Id do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled. – Steve Martin

I thought Borat was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasnt some studio-produced script with 14 writers. – Steve Martin

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 Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director – who were just fun. – Steve Martin

Chaos in the midst of chaos isnt funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. – Steve Martin

Ive got to keep breathing. Itll be my worst business mistake if I dont. – Steve Martin

Comedy may be big business but it isnt pretty. – Steve Martin

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I wouldve had a chance. Because thats where my real heart was. – Steve Martin

Ive always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but theyre just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers. – Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art youre an idiot. – Steve Martin

Theres a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. Theres a lot of sex, you know, in art. Theres a lot of naked women and men, and theres intrigue, theres fakery. Its a real microcosm of the larger world. – Steve Martin

Im enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything thats considered artistic, theres a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It cant exist without it. – Steve Martin

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, Ive never played with a band. Ive always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn. – Steve Martin

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that its easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin man and the loner. – Steve Martin

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. – Steve Martin

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. – Steve Martin