Born Standing Up

Author: Steve Martin

Release: November 20, 2007

Tagline: a comic’s life

Publisher: Scribner

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Entertainment, Memoir

ISBN-10: 1416553649
ISBN-13: 978-1416553649

Declassified by Agent Palmer: Born Standing Up celebrates the struggle of Steve Martin finding his genius

Quotes and Lines

After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego’s last stand.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.