Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 11

I just brush it off and try to make a joke about it. Over the years it's been interesting.

While my fervent hope is we can get the entire amount. I think we need to have some idea what we would lose.

In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, "Hi, was it good for you too?" If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.

Hello, this is Harris. I'm in right now, so you can talk to me personally. Please start talking at the sound of the beep.

We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.

That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

I wrote a novel this year called "Shop Girl", and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, "If you think you`re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending... that`s going to cost you."

All of those things make it look like a really hard transaction to pull off. But it can be done.

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

We are just happy that we are here in Brazil and that this was a good ending.

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.

I'm surprised even now that I was aware of things like that at that age. I don't know why. But I decided I would just rather not do them. So I quit for a while.

These times are much franker. For example, in the first movie we have to assume that the daughter and the son-in-law who got married were lovers before they got married. That could never have been in the '50s.

I would have felt a little funny if another actor was playing this role.