Steve Martin quote: "That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age."

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
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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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When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
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I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
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I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
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What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
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Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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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 think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them o...
STEVE MARTIN

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th...
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.
STEVE MARTIN

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if y...
STEVE MARTIN

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working ...
STEVE MARTIN

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be...
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Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
STEVE MARTIN

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you...
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!
STEVE MARTIN

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

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

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of peo...
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Be so good they can't ignore you.
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself ...
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I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness...
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I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, th...
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Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played ...
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might ...
STEVE MARTIN

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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Love is a promise delivered already broken.
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You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's ...
STEVE MARTIN

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won'...
STEVE MARTIN

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just l...
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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is...
STEVE MARTIN

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I j...
STEVE MARTIN

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

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't s...
STEVE MARTIN

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians....
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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act o...
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Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows ar...
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'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a rea...
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I just brush it off and try to make a joke about it. Over the years it's been interesting.
STEVE MARTIN

I'm enamored with the art world.
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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor deta...
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There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of...
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When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally ev...
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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes...
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I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting o...
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I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and ...
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We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the ent...
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I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the g...
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I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, ...
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I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'...
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Comedians don't get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can't really speak about the...
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It doesn't behoove us not to ask these questions. It makes us look like fools.
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When we started building out here, we knew this was where we were headed. After we built our first o...
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It's hard to find the right expression for this, but her beauty that she keeps within, you know? The...
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I'm happy with how the day has gone and we've made positive steps forward each time I've gone out. M...
STEVE MARTIN

By expressing his heart, anger and joy, Richard Pryor took comedy to its highest form.
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It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you ...
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Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.
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[On his breakthrough 1977 album] Let's Get Small, ... There's a million people onstage and everythin...
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a pile of near-misses.
STEVE MARTIN

I would have felt a little funny if another actor was playing this role.
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We're absolutely thrilled to be named as one of the Best Companies to Work for in Texas. It's an hon...
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It's kind of a dream come true, because we've always loved these films. We've loved this character, ...
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As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it ...
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We're going to look at it again in June, we just want to make sure we when we do increase purses we ...
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These times are much franker. For example, in the first movie we have to assume that the daughter an...
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is wh...
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First, my doctor told me the good news. He said I was going to have a disease named after me.
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There was a point when I was around 14,
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I believe in eight of the ten commandments; and I believe in going to church every Sunday unless the...
STEVE MARTIN

Owning a cat is a lot like being an American tourist in a fancy French restaurant- you will be overc...
STEVE MARTIN

I gave my cat a bath the other day. . .they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, if was fun for me....
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I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs not...
STEVE MARTIN

It's almost as if someone took a saltine cracker, crumbled it and threw it in the air. These casinos...
STEVE MARTIN

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of t...
STEVE MARTIN

We are comfortable, collectively, that those 12 [shootings] are related.
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It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it: The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into th...
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd ...
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She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, an...
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I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as mu...
STEVE MARTIN

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and bei...
STEVE MARTIN

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said...
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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
STEVE MARTIN

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled ...
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I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you...
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. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
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I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of soc...
STEVE MARTIN

Just to be on the front row here is a bit of a prize in itself.
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You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey, fucking, cheeks! Then you can gi...
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There was a time in my life when I was very interested in relationship psychology. Relationships end...
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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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You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ...
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They're going to ask those questions.
STEVE MARTIN

It takes time though for owners and trainers to invest that additional purse money to start cultivat...
STEVE MARTIN

If she doesn't get an Academy Award nomination, I will kill myself.
STEVE MARTIN

Claire is actually younger in life than the role calls for, but her emotional knowledge continued to...
STEVE MARTIN

I just think they should get a fair shake. They didn't. They didn't have the rights regular criminal...
STEVE MARTIN

I am really happy to stay with FPR for next year, especially after the amount of progress that we ha...
STEVE MARTIN

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and tal...
STEVE MARTIN

I'm surprised even now that I was aware of things like that at that age. I don't know why. But I dec...
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We are just happy that we are here in Brazil and that this was a good ending.
STEVE MARTIN

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron,
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I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal - high enough so you can look up her dress
STEVE MARTIN

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic region cov...
STEVE MARTIN

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy C...
STEVE MARTIN

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
STEVE MARTIN

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke
STEVE MARTIN

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was. . . a large Arctic region covered wi...
STEVE MARTIN

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between mom...
STEVE MARTIN

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Bil...
STEVE MARTIN

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the...
STEVE MARTIN

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it s...
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I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing ...
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You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ...
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Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work ...
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L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I t...
STEVE MARTIN

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on i...
STEVE MARTIN

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
STEVE MARTIN

Had his room been facing west he would have noted the sparkling twenty-five-mile vista to the sea wh...
STEVE MARTIN

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever h...
STEVE MARTIN

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live ch...
STEVE MARTIN

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull and boring and omnipresent
Criticize things yo...
STEVE MARTIN

Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult...
STEVE MARTIN

career in the irrational world of creativity not only made sense but had moral purpose.
STEVE MARTIN

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between mom...
STEVE MARTIN

Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.
STEVE MARTIN

These word games bothered and intrigued me. Appearing to be silly nonsense, on examination they were...
STEVE MARTIN

In logic class, I opened my textbook—the last place I was expecting to find comic inspiration—an...
STEVE MARTIN

In a sense, this book is not an autobiography but a biography, because I am writing about someone I ...
STEVE MARTIN

pinching my swollen fingers in between. Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one elemen...
STEVE MARTIN

One day I was particularly gloomy, and Jim asked me what the matter was. I told him my high school g...
STEVE MARTIN

Enjoyment while performing was rare—enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that come...
STEVE MARTIN

You’re nuts, but you’re welcome here.
STEVE MARTIN

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding t...
STEVE MARTIN

But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h...
STEVE MARTIN

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
STEVE MARTIN

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
STEVE MARTIN

It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are...
STEVE MARTIN

What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and n...
STEVE MARTIN

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTIN

...My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled "What". He shouted, "You heard...
STEVE MARTIN

In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the...
STEVE MARTIN

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, w...
STEVE MARTIN

But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:

1) Babies a...
STEVE MARTIN

My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the...
STEVE MARTIN

How many people have never raised their hand before?
STEVE MARTIN

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this st...
STEVE MARTIN

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: na�...
STEVE MARTIN

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This ...
STEVE MARTIN

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
STEVE MARTIN

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul gene...
MARTIN

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
STEVE LARGENT

YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.
STEVE CHEN

We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK

Ultimately, the bread and butter of McDonald's is delivering great service, great quality food, ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those specie...
STEVE IRWIN

There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.
STEVE CHEN

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk....
STEVE IRWIN

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
STEVE IRWIN

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
STEVE IRWIN

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
STEVE IRWIN

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
STEVE IRWIN

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we ...
STEVE IRWIN

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from...
STEVE IRWIN

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been s...
STEVE IRWIN

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
STEVE IRWIN

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm get...
STEVE IRWIN

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to...
STEVE IRWIN

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted wi...
STEVE IRWIN

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet...
STEVE IRWIN

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
STEVE IRWIN

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
STEVE IRWIN

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
STEVE IRWIN

That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age.

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That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age.

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