Steve Martin Quotes

“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“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”
― Steve Martin

“Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.”
― Steve Martin

“Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.”
― Steve Martin

“Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.”
― Steve Martin

“Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life