Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. He was raised in Southern California in a Baptist family, where his early influences were working at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and working magic and comedy acts at these and other smaller venues in the area. His ascent to fame picked up when he became a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on the Tonight Show.

In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. In the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, he became a successful actor, playwright, and juggler, and eventually earned Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards.

Stephen Glenn Martin (born 14 August 1945) is an American comedian, writer, actor, musician and composer.

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• The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now!
  • As "Navin R. Johnson" in The Jerk (1979)

• All of a sudden I had to remember some words that Marlowe had told me over fifteen years ago: 'Dead men don't wear plaid.' Hmm... Dead men don't wear plaid. I still don't know what it means.
  • As "Rigby Reardon" in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

• You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
  • As "Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr" in The Man with Two Brains (1983)

• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
  • As Harris K. Telemacher in "L.A. Story" (1991)

• Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?
  • As Harris K. Telemacher in "L.A. Story" (1991)

• Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman — it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.
  • Hosting the 2001 Academy Awards

• I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
  • Introducing the best adapted screenplay at the 2003 Academy Awards

• It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it — The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.
  • After Moore's speech at the 75th Academy Awards, in 2003.

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