When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.
Steve MartinI loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
Steve MartinActing is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
Steve MartinYou 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.
Steve Martin