I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Quote by Steve Martin
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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Steve Martin Quotes
- Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
- You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
- 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.
- I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
- Everything is fraught with danger. 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.
- I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
- 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.
- Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
- A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
- When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
- Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- I did get a degree in special education.