Reiner explained the chemistry the two had together in Consequence's Oral History, saying 'Once we did this film together, we did three after that, so you realize we were on the same page every day and we understood each other and it just flew out of us.' An argument could be made that the Reiner era of Steve Martin's career produced the funniest movies the comedian ever made.

'He and I used to travel together, to go to the set every day, and, one day, we found a piece of gold.' 'Steve was a genius waiting to be recognized as a performer,' Reiner remembers. In a 2019 oral history of 'The Jerk' published by Consequence, director and legendary comedian Carl Reiner remembered using the old 1940s saying to craft a hilarious scene. Those soldiers had no idea that their shoe shine joke would wind up being one of the funniest moments in Steve Martin's breakout comedy 'The Jerk,' the comedy classic that launched Martin's massive movie career.

Another such saying, 'You don't know s*** from Shinola,' originated during WWII when soldiers would berate a country bumpkin fresh off the boat. So-and-so 'doesn't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his ass,' is a solid diss for example, which most likely comes from English conductor Sir Henry Wood's expression, 'he doesn't know his brass from his woodwind'. “I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.A lot of these sayings are vulgar put-downs, but they are admittedly quite funny. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.” “I have always had strong maternal instincts. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!” You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up.

“It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!” Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. “When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part.

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