• Name: Steve Martin
  
• Birth Name: Stephen Glenn Martin
  
• Height: 5' 11"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: August 14, 1945
  
• Birth Place: Waco, Texas, USA
  
• Profession: actor, writer, comedian
  
• Education: Garden Grove High School
  
•   : Long Beach State in Long Beach, California (studied Philosophy)
  
•   : Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, New York
  
• Husband/Wife: Victoria Tennant (actress; born on September 30, 1950; married on November 20, 1986; separated in 1993; divorced in 1994)
  
• Relationship: Anne Heche (actress; born on May 25, 1969; met during filming of A Simple Twist of Fate - 1994), Bernadette Peters (actress; born on February 28, 1948; met on set of The Jerk -1979)
  

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• On kids cavorting: "Sure, there were times in the movie when the kids got so out of hand you'd want to send them to bed ... or handcuff them to the bed frame. But in real life, they were all just bright and sunny. Did they make me laugh? Kids don't do one-liners; their personalities are funny. I once asked two parents why their children were so fabulous and they said `We raised them with humour.' I thought that was a great answer."
• On phones a-ringing: "I still think cell phones are the tool of the devil and I figured something out about them the other day. When you call someone and the voice says `If you'd like to leave a message, press 1,' and then after you've left your message they say `Press 5 for more options,' you know what they're doing? They're killing air time and it's all going to add up on your bill."
• On being nominated for the Golden Globes five times, but never winning: "Awards are funny things. As Nora Ephron once said `When you sit down to write the first page of your new screenplay, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.'
• On careers careering: "Yes, I'm an actor, a playwright and a novelist, but don't forget juggling, too. I don't rate my talents. They come as they come. You don't make career choices. It just happens to you. I never planned to be an actor. I wanted to be a comic. If I'd started out as an actor, I'd still be on the audition line, for sure."
• On favorite films: "I've made over 30 movies, so I don't really have one that I prefer over all the others, but sometimes I think back with extraordinary fondness on the circumstances surrounding the making of the picture and two that fall into that category are DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS and ROXANNE."
• On how he enjoys physical comedy: "It's fun. You use every part of your body. It's something I've done a lot and something (that) comes natural. And you feel funny when you're doing it, so it's a nice feeling."
• "What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."
• "I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy."
• "I wrote a novel this year called 'Shop Girl,' and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, "If you think you're going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending... that's going to cost you."
• (While hosting the 73rd Annual Academy Awards) "And now, I'm pleased to introduce the star of the film 'Gladiator,' and a man I like to call a close, personal friend, but he told me not to..."
• "The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself."
• "All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work."

• American Cinematheque Award (2004)
• Boston Film Festival: Film Excellence Award (2001)
• American Comedy Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy (2000)
• People's Choice Awards: Favorite Comedy Motion Picture Actor (1993)
• People's Choice Awards: Favorite Comedy Motion Picture Actor (1992)
• Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Man of the Year (1988)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actor, ROXANNE (1988)
• Writers Guild of America: Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, ROXANNE (1988)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, ROXANNE (1987)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actor for All of Me (1985)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actor, ALL OF ME (1984)
• Writers Guild of America: Variety, Musical or Comedy, Steve Martin: All Commercials (1981)
• Emmy Awards: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1969)

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