105 Quotes by Martin Short

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.