Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 12

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

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.

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

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

Or is it that I think too much?

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 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."

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

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

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

I just think they should get a fair shake. They didn't. They didn't have the rights regular criminals get.

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

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've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.