Martin Short Quotes

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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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  Palaces, Royal, Hospitality

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

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  Life, Stress, Party

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

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  Wonderful, Moments, Enjoy

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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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  Musical, Directors, Said

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• No one is any one thing.

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  One Thing

  "Getting the Skinny on Martin Short". Interview with Richard Knight, Jr., www.windycitymediagroup.com. May 4, 2005.

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

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  Family, Attention And Love, Persons

  Parade Magazine, January 23, 2000.

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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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  Trying, Easy, Figures

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• 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.

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  Laughter, Children, People

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Life, Loss, Cutting

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• A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

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  Awards, Years, Weather

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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

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  Father, Thinking, People

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

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  Influence, Great Influence

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Tears, Sometimes, My Own

  Interview with Daniel Handler, www.believermag.com. July 2003.

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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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  Thinking, Careers, Safety

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Country, Character, Live Concerts

  Source: deadline.com

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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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  Retirement, Character, Home

  "Hot Seat". Time Out New York, Issue 565, August 02, 2006.

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• When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Worry

  Source: deadline.com

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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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  Art, Silly, People

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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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  Writing, Done, Want

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• Comedy is a weird thing. You have to understand, it's the weirdest thing you can do. There's no consensus. It's not like... People say, "I saw Saving Private Ryan, and that scene on the beach is just so moving." I can't imagine anyone who would say "I don't find that moving!" But you can show, whether it's Laurel & Hardy or the Three Stooges or Jiminy Glick In Lalawood, some people are going to look at it and say "That's the funniest thing I've ever seen." Some people will say "I don't get it." Who's right, who's wrong?

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  Beach, Moving, People

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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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  Fun, Hate, Thinking

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

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  Gold, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

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  Objectivity, Careers, Luxury

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

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  Brother, Sibling, Thinking

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