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Love is a promise delivered already broken.

~Steve Martin

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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

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I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

~Steve Martin

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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.

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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating.

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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.

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

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Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: August 14th, 1945

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