“I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.” MenWayBookShowsParentPoorMagicSixSevenTricksShow BusinessPoor ManMagic Tricks Author:Steve Martin
“I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.” IfsKnowsMenKindSometimesVisionOpinionAudienceSeeingMaterialsListeningDirectorsThirdsProducersComedianWavelength Author:Steve Martin
“Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.” MenTwoActorsActingTeamJugglingSync Author:Steve Martin
“I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.” PeopleMenRealHumorFunnyYoungCareersBitterYoung ManSour Author:Steve Martin
“Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.” MenEarthHollywoodBaseballShirtsCapsHawaiiansBaseball Caps Author:Steve Martin
“I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.” MenRunningLeaderSellsBeerGamblingLotteryLovable Author:Steve Martin
“It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.” KnowsMenWritingBookEnergyDifferencesWriting A BookOlder Man Author:Steve Martin
“Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.” MenHumorFunnySexTalkingKissingDatingFunny RelationshipFunny Sex Author:Steve Martin
“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.” IfsMenHumorFunnyBreakOne ThingCaughtMoving OnBreakupBreak UpBroken HeartedAnother WomanHeart WrenchingAfter BreakupAfter Break UpBreakups And Moving OnMoving On After BreakupReally Sad Break Up Author:Steve Martin
“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.” ThinkingKnowsMenPersonsIdeasGivenChildhoodCircumstancesEasierIllusionRaisedSolitaryCasualLoner Author:Steve Martin
“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.” PeopleKnowsMenWorldArtImportantRealSexMen And WomenImportant ThingsNakedIntrigueMicrocosm Author:Steve Martin
“The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.” PeopleMenMadeDifferentOrderEmotionFeetDevilForgivingDustVitalityInnateKnackAnnoyanceMisdeeds Author:Steve Martin
“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.” MenFirstsIdeasSelfAttitudeApproachAffected Author:Steve Martin
“So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.” IfsMenWorldInterestLandAdventureCitizensNormalWorthySense Of HumorSparksInvestigationUnsureTime Spent Book:An Object of Beauty Source: An Object of Beauty
“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.” MenWayHumorFunnyWalksMusicEmpathyCriticismShoesMilesCriticizeMiles Away Author:Steve Martin
“...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.” MenYoungYoung ManPlatesShellsCrabsScarvesJamaicansDreadlocks Author:Steve Martin
