Steve Martin Quotes


"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Money, Sex)

"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Hate, Woman)

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Nothing, Pretty)

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Business, Mistake)

"Love is a promise delivered already broken."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Love, Promise)

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Architecture, Music, Dancing, Talking)

"There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Woman)

"Well, excuuuuuse me!"
- Steve Martin
"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Art, Entertainment)

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Day, Night)

"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Movies, Life)

"When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Work, Hobbies)

"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Art, People, Comedy)

"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."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Acting, Actor, First, Joy, Writing)

"Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Sex, Kissing, Man, Pretty, Talking)

"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Business, Comedy, May, Pretty)

"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Funny, Chaos, Order)

"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Apology, Dignity, Gentleman, Wrong)

"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"
- Steve Martin
(Related: Word)

"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."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Love, Woman)