Steve Martin Quotes

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

He doesn’t understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn’t be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

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.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

COHEN We were all caught in a trap of circumstance. LOUISE How so? COHEN This event, this failure of a knot in a string, catapulted us into rare air. Our desires became disconnected from this earth. Versati motivated by fantasy, myself motivated by jealousy. Your mind clouded by romance.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failure to approach her, as her own self-deprecating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

"Clarissa habla conmigo durante exactamente cuarenta y cinco minutos, pero no es psiquiatra cualificada; es estudiante de psiquiatría. De modo que oficialmente es una visitante que tiene los ojos verdes..."

"Si estaba en una misión de recopilación de datos o coqueteaba conmigo, no habría sabido decirlo. Pero que supiera qué fármacos corrían por mis privadas venas era algo profundamente íntimo."

"Hay una tradición solemne en torno a lo clandestino..."

"Ya no pude permitirme crear un código cuando sabía en todo momento que su último fin era ser decodificado."

"Toda ella era una colección de colores pastel, y su piel, con el brillo rosa que irradiaba, contrastaba con la arena blanca y el azul turquesa de su blusa. A partir de su imagen y de los recuerdos que tenía de ella me hice una idea clara de su cualidad más conmovedora: su negativa a estar triste."

"No sabía si los gestos de Clarissa hacía mí eran platónicos, aristotélicos, hegelianos o eróticos. De modo que me quedé allí, unido a ella por tres puntos: su mano en mi nuca, mi mano en su espalda y su pelo acariciándome el costado. Miré el cielo y me pregunté cómo podía estar enamorado de alguien cuyo nombre no era un anágrama..."

Fragmentos de El Placer de mi Compañía,
escrito por Steve Martin

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. AT

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull and boring and omnipresent
Criticize things you don't know about
Be oblong and have your knees removed

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