Martin Short Quotes

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Martin Short

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 26, 1950

When you get to a point where you're successful enough that you can say, 'I don't have to take any job anymore,' and you're still good at what you do, how do you decide what work to take on? I think the answer is that you pursue what you enjoy. In my case, it's variety.

Martin Short

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

Martin Short

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Martin Short

Trump is Trump. Some people find him hilarious. I don't find it hilarious, but you can't say it's dull. There's nothing credible about Donald Trump.

Martin Short

Eugene Levy is my closest friend.

Martin Short

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

I remember, as a kid, nothing struck me funnier than seeing Richard Nixon look into the camera and sincerely tell everyone he didn't know where the 18 minutes had gone from his tapes. But there was all this sweat on his upper lip. We knew he was lying. He knew we knew he was lying. But he was determined to tell the lie.

Martin Short

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