American - Comedian | August 14, 1945 -
With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
Steve Martin
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I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
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I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.
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Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
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Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.
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I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.
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I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.
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L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.
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When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.
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I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.
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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating.
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When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.
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