A biography for Steve Martinhasn’t been written yet.
“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.”
“I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.”
“Nothing I do is done by popular demand.”
“I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.”
“I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.”
“Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.”
“Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.”
“I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.”
“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”
“You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.”
“Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.”
“I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.”
“I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.”
“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
“It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.”
“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
“Be so good they can't ignore you.”
“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.”
“I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.”