Quotes from Steve Martin

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

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

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 just the way people use it, and it always has been.

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

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, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

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

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

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

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.