Martin Short Get Over It Quotes & Sayings

my happiness was never predicated first and foremost upon my career. It's an outlook that has served me well. — Martin Short

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense. — Martin O'Malley

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life. — Martin Short

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here. — Chris Martin

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime. — Martin Short

Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night. — Martin Freeman

Discipline is essential to life, whether you are administering or inflicting the spanking. — Martin Short

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

Had his room been facing west he would have noted the sparkling twenty-five-mile vista to the sea which looks almost like the Mediterranean. He would have noted how the streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath. How laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight. Had he been facing seaward on a balcony overlooking the city the writer might have heard drifting out of a tiny apartment window the optimistic voice of a shower singer imbued with the conviction that this is a place where it is possible to be happy. — Steve Martin

It's better to love a short ... — Martin Short

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

I decided that, as a stand-up, I'd position myself as a cerebral, observational comic, making references to Camus and Kierkegaard. I wasn't so much concerned with getting laughs as I was with seeing audience members turn to each other at any given moment and say, "Exactly! — Martin Short

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. — Martin Short

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal. — Curtis Martin

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA. — Martin Short

Whisper a word in the wrong ear and before you knew it you'd be short a head. — George R R Martin

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. — Martin Short

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I cannot see why she lengthens her list nor thinks we are short of weapons with which to run her through. — Martin Luther

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R R Martin

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. — Martin Short

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — 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. — Martin Short

We arranged to spend the next day, a Sunday, looking at apartments together, followed by a round of tennis, since we both played. Before Nancy left the Pilot that night, I said to her lasciviously - I don't know what possessed me - "Have you ever tried a comedian before?" Which was either very sexy or very creepy, depending on your opinion of me. She just stared at me, betraying no emotion, and said, "I hope you have a racket. I'm pretty good." Our — Martin Short

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. — Martin Short

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy. — Martin Short

I'm short not blind — George R R Martin

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes. — Martin Short

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had."
"If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick — George R R Martin

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. — Jamie Farr

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. — Martin Short