Martin Short Quotes
- I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
- I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
- Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
- I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.
- If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.
- I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
- 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…
- All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
- Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
- It's better to love a short...
- Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.
- 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.
- People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
- I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
- I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.
- My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
- 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.
- One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
- Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
- No one is any one thing.