Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 11

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

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.

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

She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

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.

You can’t make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

...you're nuts but you're welcome here.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

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.

Or is it that I think too much?

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

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.

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

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.

I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk! Never at dusk, I would never do that.