Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naivete, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.Steve Martin
I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success.Steve Martin
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.Steve Martin
What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation.Steve Martin
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic: I thought it was my duty to be as original as possible without hurting anyone's feelings.Steve Martin
In the real world, one doesn't need to be a loser to empathize with those who perennially lose; all that's required is a modicum of appreciation for life's unendurable unfairness, unachievable standards, and unsatisfiable desires.Steve Martin
All knowledge must be lived to be vital.Steve Martin
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art and can become art, but if you set out to make art, you’re an idiot.Steve Martin
One's absence can be more effective than his presence. Absence affects people remarkably.Steve Martin
Men have biological clocks. Nature is a woman.Steve Martin