Steve Martin
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Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

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

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

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

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 I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

Tweeting is really only good for one thing — it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.