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

— Steve Martin

#comedy #laugh #making #people #puke

Love is a promise delivered already broken. ↗

— Steve Martin

#broken #delivered #love #love is #promise

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

— Steve Martin

#aspire #become #believe #entertainment #i

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. ↗

— Steve Martin

#automatic #automatically #bothered #comedians #day

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. ↗

— Steve Martin

#comedy #comic #course #did #fame

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. ↗

— Steve Martin

#believe #country #i #i believe #i believe that

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#notice #religious #silence #take #them

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out. ↗

— Steve Martin

#being #ego #found #front #high

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

— Steve Martin

#blank paper #bunch #considering #did #i

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 idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. ↗

— Steve Martin

#also #because #casual #childhood #circumstances