Quotes by Martin Short

• I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.
• 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 think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
• All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
• 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.
• You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.
• I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
• 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.
• 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.
• One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
• No one is any one thing.
• My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
• I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
• I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
• You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, "No".