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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.

— Steve Martin Hosting the 73rd Academy Awards (2001)

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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)

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)

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it — The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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