Quotes By Steve Martin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

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.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.