Martin Short Quotes

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've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

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.

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.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

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.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

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.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

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.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

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?

No one is any one thing.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

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.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

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.

Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.

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.