Martin Short famous quotes

04-19-2025

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.
-- Martin Short

#Royal #Palaces #Hotel
When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.
-- Martin Short

#Work Out #Way #Next
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
-- Martin Short

#Stress #Party #Treats
An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.
-- Martin Short

#Gold #Actors
If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.
-- Martin Short

#Wonderful #Moments #Enjoy
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.
-- Martin Short

#Art #Drama #Fire
The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.
-- Martin Short

#Family #Attention #And Love
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.
-- Martin Short

#Thinking #Careers #Safety
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
-- Martin Short

#Influence
You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.
-- Martin Short

#Trying #Easy #Figures
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
-- Martin Short

#Character #Thinking #Challenges
I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
-- Martin Short

#Done
Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
-- Martin Short
You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
-- Martin Short

#Easy
[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.
-- Martin Short

#Retirement #Character #Home
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.
-- Martin Short

#Children #Laughter #Giving
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
-- Martin Short

#Mother #Symphony #Concerts
I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.
-- Martin Short

#Luxury #Objectivity #Careers
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
-- Martin Short

#Fun #Hate #Thinking
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
-- Martin Short

#Father #Thinking #People
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
-- Martin Short

#Brother #Sibling #Thinking
Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
-- Martin Short

#People #Passionate #Sometimes
I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.
-- Martin Short

#Loss #Cutting #Thinking
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
-- Martin Short

#Tears #Sometimes
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.
-- Martin Short

#Writing #Done #Want
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
-- Martin Short

#Editing #Trying #Rooms
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
-- Martin Short
It's better to love a short...
-- Martin Short
Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.
-- Martin Short

#Jobs #Ideas #Giving
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.
-- Martin Short

#Character #Eyebrows #Forever

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