Steve Martin - biography

“The real joy is in constructing a sentence.  But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.”

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

“There’s a good point to celebrity - I can get a table in a restaurant.  The bad point is that fans start videotaping me while I’m eating.”

“Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.”

“Making yourself look stupid seems much more human.  Making other people look stupid just seems cheap.”

“What is comedy?  Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

“When some of my movies flopped, I took it personally.  I really believed that the public didn’t like me - me, as a person.  But you’ve got to keep striving to change that.”

“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.”

“When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that’s OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves...  well.”

“Love is a promise delivered already broken.”

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman.  It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.”

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders.  I hate necks.”

“An apology?  Bah!  Disgusting!  Cowardly!  Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.”

“Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!”

“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.”

“Don’t have sex man.  It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.”

“I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was...  an arctic wilderness.”

“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”

“I’ve got to keep breathing.  It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.”

“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.”

“Well, excuuuuuse me!”

Steve Martin has appeared in the following films:
Iron Man (1951)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Jerk (1979)
Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
All of Me (1984)
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
¡Three Amigos! (1986)
Roxanne (1987)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Parenthood (1989)
My Blue Heaven (1990)
Father of the Bride (1991)
L.A. Story (1991)
Grand Canyon (1991)
HouseSitter (1992)
Leap of Faith (1992)
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Mixed Nuts (1994)
Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
Sgt. Bilko (1996)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Bowfinger (1999)
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
The Venice Project (1999)
Novocaine (2001)
Bringing Down the House (2003)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Shall We Dance (2004)
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Shopgirl (2005)
The Pink Panther (2006)
Baby Mama (2008)
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
It’s Complicated (2009)
The Big Year (2011)


Steve Martin contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Jerk (1979)
¡Three Amigos! (1986)
Roxanne (1987)
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Shopgirl (2005)
Traitor (2008)
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)