Steve Martin Quotes About Funny
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
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Be so good they can't ignore you.
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It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.
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It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.
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Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
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A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
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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.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
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Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
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