Quotes from Steve Martin

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.

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

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

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 of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's 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.

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

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.

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.

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

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 when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

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