Martin Short Quotes
20 quotations by Martin Short
You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, "No". |
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows. |
What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime. |
Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes. |
Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied. |
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. |
No one is any one thing. |
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. |
I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie. |
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny. |
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. |
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit. |
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. |
I have a kind of objective luxury about my career. |
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations. |
I always do my life around the school year. Around the middle of June, the kids are out of school and we go up to our cottage in Canada. |
David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny. |
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence. |
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room. |
All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done. |