Martin Short Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“No one is any one thing.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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