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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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

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.

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

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.