Martin Short Quotes
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One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
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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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A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.
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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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I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
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All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
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People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
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The thing in comedy is that once you start worrying about something not succeeding, you're frozen. There's no verdict on anything. You can make ¡Three Amigos!, and some people will at the time say, "Oh, that's too silly." Then five years later, silly is hip. Now it's considered art. I never comment on anything I do, because if I say anything negative about X film, or X TV show, or X project, people who saw it and loved it go, "Well, am I an idiot?"
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I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.
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No one is any one thing.
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[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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I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
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You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
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Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
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You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.
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Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
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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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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
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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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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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Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.
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Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.
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An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.
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All the actor does is, he tries to get as many takes as he can out of the director that day. So he can walk away and say to himself, "Hey, it's in there. I'm not going to edit it. I'm not going to make those choices. If they want to blow it, it's fine. But I've done all I can." You're right. I'm always amazed when actors bash films as if those grips and that cinematographer didn't work hard enough.
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I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.
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Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
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People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?
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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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I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
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If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.
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