I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the author's early love for comedy and comedians, highlighting their influence on him.
Steve Martin shares a nostalgic reflection on his youth, emphasizing how his admiration for comedians like Laurel and Hardy and Jerry Lewis shaped his appreciation for comedy. This fondness for humor not only enriched his childhood but also underlines the timeless impact of comedic figures in shaping creative pursuits and personal joy.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of humor in our lives.
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."
If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
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