About Steve Martin: Stephen Glenn is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and singer.
...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the id...
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many ba...
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.
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.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
I'm enamored with the art world.
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
