Top 49 Martin Short Quotes
#2. everything from Hairspray to the Academy Awards. They were also my co-conspirators on my 2006 Broadway show, Fame
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#3. A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.
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#4. I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
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#5. You know, speaking from experience, I can tell you that there's no aphrodisiac more potent than Watergate-themed cabaret music.
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#6. 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.
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#7. If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.
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#8. I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.
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#9. You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
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#10. 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.
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#11. All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
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#12. People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
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#13. Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.
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#14. my happiness was never predicated first and foremost upon my career. It's an outlook that has served me well.
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#15. You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.
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#17. I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
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#18. Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
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#20. Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.
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#21. ...something terrible can happen to you, and yet, the day after this something terrible, the sun still rises, and life goes on. And so must you.
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#22. [Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.
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#23. The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.
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#24. An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.
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#25. A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.
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#26. Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.
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#29. When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.
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#30. I decided that, as a stand-up, I'd position myself as a cerebral, observational comic, making references to Camus and Kierkegaard. I wasn't so much concerned with getting laughs as I was with seeing audience members turn to each other at any given moment and say, "Exactly!
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#31. I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
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#32. I'm Dhani Harrison," he said. "One of the last things my father told me was that if I ever come across people who were important to him, I should give them a hug.
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#33. To my beloved friends, there's simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I'd look for new friends and get them.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
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#37. Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
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#38. I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
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#39. I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter.
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#40. I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.
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#41. I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
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#42. I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
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#43. Da problem with today's songwriters is, dey're just ripping off what I did years ago. "Send In da Clowns"? I wrote da same tune back in 1910 under the title "Send Up Some Towels.
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#44. There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.
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#45. I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.
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#46. One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
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#47. Discipline is essential to life, whether you are administering or inflicting the spanking.
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#48. I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
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#49. We had season tickets to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, and, as only we Canadians can say, we had prime seats right on the fifty-five-yard line. And
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