Steve Martin Quotes

iPhone just synced perfectly with toaster. All is well.

A watched iPhone never syncs.

I’m so depressed today. I just found out this ‘death thing’ applies to me.

I guessed that one day the restrictions I imposed on myself would end. But first, it seemed that my range of possible activities would have to iris down to zero before I could turn myself around. Then, when I was static and immobile, I could weigh and measure every exterior force and, slowly and incrementally, once again allow the outside in. And that would be my life.

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.

THEO Versati, you have performed a miracle. VERSATI How’s that? THEO You have utterly changed your beliefs and yet your actions remain the same.

"I was alone with him in the bedroom; his mind was alert but his body was failing. He said, almost buoyantly, “I’m ready now.” I sat on the edge of the bed, and another silence fell over us. Then he said, “I wish I could cry, I wish I could cry.”

At first I took this as a comment on his condition but am forever thankful that I pushed on. “What do you want to cry about?” I said.

“For all the love I received and couldn’t return.”

I felt a chill of familiarity.

There was another lengthy silence as we looked into each other’s eyes. At last he said, “You did everything I wanted to do.”

"I did it for you,” I said. Then we wept for the lost years. I was glad I didn’t say the more complicated truth: “I did it because of you.

I’m not sure what I meant, but I wanted to use the lingo, and it was seductive to make these pronouncements. Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Having few interests to sustain her, over the next few years she fell into a vacant, mental decline.

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.

VERSATI (To Theo.) I can’t believe that you believe what you believe. THEO I can’t change my mind. I’d have nothing to think.

VERSATI Herr Maske, let me ask you a philosophical question. THEO I enjoy a good philosophical question as much as the next fellow. COHEN (Who is sitting next to Theo.) How would you know that? THEO Know what? COHEN Well, I am the next fellow and how would you know you enjoy them as much as I? THEO (Ignores him.)

I was going to drill through the divider. To keep an eye on him. LOUISE What right do you have! COHEN Jealousy gives me the right to be a fool.

career in the irrational world of creativity not only made sense but had moral purpose.

At the mall. Think I’ll do some rehearsing. Lie on sidewalk, get into “dead guy” character. Quite hard to do without chalk outline.