Steve Martin is a well-known American actor, comedian, writer, and musician who excels in a variety of entertainment categories. In Waco, Texas, he was born on August 14, 1945. Hollywood has used Steve Martin in a number of different productions. Millions of people all across the world have fallen in love with him because of his charming and humorous on-screen demeanor.

Here are 15 amusing quips from the comedian to celebrate his birthday

  1. “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
  2. “Some people have a way with words, and other people, oh, uh, not have way.”
  3. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
  4. “I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tongue?”
  5. “First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”
  6. “Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
  7. “I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.”
  8. “What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
  9. “Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality which stops you from realizing you’re not suited for what you’re about to do.”
  10. “A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.”
  11. “I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, mid-evening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-mid-afternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.”
  12. “How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.”
  13. I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”
  14. “Love is a promise delivered already broken.”
  15. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”