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Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas.
* He is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.
* He has won five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2013.
* He was raised in Inglewood, California with his sister, and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family.
* Martin was a cheerleader at Garden Grove High School.
* He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 1970s.
* He made his film debut in 1977 with the film The Jerk.
* He has starred in a number of successful films, including Three Amigos, Parenthood, and Little Shop of Horrors.
* He is known for his dry wit and his physical comedy.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

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Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.

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

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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

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I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

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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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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

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I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

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