Originally published November 1, 1989
How did Steve Martin, a basically shy, almost introverted “nice guy,” become the goofball who paraded before thousands of people with bunny ears on his head? “You're not going to get into my past, are you?” Martin responds when told it is time to talk about his background. “Nobody cares where I grew up. Even I don't care. When I read an interview and it gets to the part where a person grew up I turn the page.”
He was signed with the William Morris Agency as a writer. “I went in and told them I was leaving television writing to be a performer,” Martin says. “They said, ‘Don't do it, you'll never make it.’ Well, I've heard that line in a dozen movies, so I knew I could make it. Rejection
