Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 11

Just to be on the front row here is a bit of a prize in itself.

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.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

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.

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

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

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

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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

There's a point when you're famous and it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And there's a moment when you're famous just right.

As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.