from 'born standing up'

[bradisntclever]

Great article by Steve Martin:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cult ... c=y&page=1

Includes a number of great quotes about performing, including this gem:

I learned a lesson: it was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the circumstances.

That's all in his book, pretty much word-for-word. Born Standing Up is a really fast read and is worth the investment.