![]() ![]() "That sort of change my life because it was a way I could perform," he says. ![]() "I had a load of laughs, but not at home."Īs a kid, Martin worked at Disneyland, first selling guidebooks ("I was making a fortune, 2 cents a book"), then as a cowboy trick-roper in Frontierland and later in the magic shop. Martin spent much of his life looking for affirmation from his father, who didn't speak to him much - "only to criticize or be stern. I didn't have any gifts except perseverance." "I think it's somehow an American story in a strange way, because I started untalented. "I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?" he tells Renee Montagne. ![]() Martin now views his early self with surprising warmth. In the end, there were giant arenas and a life suffused, as he puts it, with a "freakish celebrity aura." In the beginning, there was a string of small, quirky stages like the drive-in movie theater, where the audience honked at the punch lines. Martin calls his new book Born Standing Up a biography rather than an autobiography of a guy he used to know. ![]() Steve Martin gave up stand-up comedy in 1981, at the height of his fame, moving on to acting and writing. ![]()
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