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No one is any one thing.
- Martin Short
#Any
#One Thing
#Thing
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
- Martin Short
#Being
#Confidence
#Five
#You
#Youngest
I think Canadians are great satirists because we sit in the middle of these two giants: Great Britain and the U.S.
- Martin Short
#Giants
#Great
#Middle
#Sit
#Two
When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.
- Martin Short
#Doing
#Film
#Own
#Show
#Why
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
- Martin Short
#Life
#More
#My Life
#Stress
#Treat
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
- Martin Short
#Barney
#Fife
#Great
#Influences
There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.
- Martin Short
#Any
#Lot
#People
#Profession
#Sad
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
- Martin Short
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#Concert
#Master
#Mother
#Were
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
- Martin Short
#Dead
#Know
#Nice
#Now
#People
I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.
- Martin Short
#Genius
#Man
#Pretending
#Talent
#Who
'Nice' is not a common label for comedians, but it is for Canadians. I like it.
- Martin Short
#Canadians
#Comedians
#Common
#Like
#Nice
I was a huge fan of Steve Martin, as everyone I knew in comedy was.
- Martin Short
#Comedy
#Everyone
#Fan
#Huge Fan
#Huge
You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
- Martin Short
#Because
#Easy
#Go
#Say
#Through
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
- Martin Short
#Challenge
#Character
#Done
#Never
#Think
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
#Assignment
#Done
#Head
#Someone
#Your
My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.
- Martin Short
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#Life
#Morning
#My Life
#Wake Up
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
- Martin Short
#Because
#Family
#Funny
#I Think
#Think
The mark of the man is how he responds to situations. You're not going to avoid tough times. We're all over the barrel some of the time. What are you going to do about it?
- Martin Short
#Avoid
#Man
#Time
#Tough Times
#Tough
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
#Family
#Hotel
#Me
#Palace
#Royal
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
- Martin Short
#Editing
#Get
#Possible
#Room
#Trying
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.
- Martin Short
#Cool
#Face
#Funny
#Late
#Together
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
- Martin Short
#Catholic
#Father
#Jewish
#People
#Think
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