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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.