As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
Steve MartinIf you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
Steve MartinI realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve MartinI would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.
Steve Martin