DJ Holte

“The dawn breaks everything, including the mood from the night before.”
― Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile

“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”
― Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

“What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. This type of laugh seemed stronger to me, as they would be laughing at something they chose, rather than being told exactly when to laugh.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company