Martin Short Quotes

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

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• I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

  

  Fiona Dourif
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  • Feel
  • Acting

• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Hate
  • Weather

• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
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  • Support

• Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.

  

  Zach Galligan
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  • Pretty

• I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Know

• Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

  

  Ian Gomez
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• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Fun
  • Light

• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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  • Design

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
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  • Like

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
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  • Sound

• No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
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  • Fashion
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• A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'

  

  Paris Jackson
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• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
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• It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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  • Working
  • Jamie

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Up
  • Live

• I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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  • Hate
  • Win

• Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where you enjoy the process of loathing them so much that you want them to be there. It's such a weird, twisted thing that our minds do.

  

  Chris Wood
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• Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again.

  

  Liev Schreiber
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• I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

  

  Zachary Knighton
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  • Writing
  • Guy

• I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

  

  Candace Parker
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  • Being

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
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  • Composer

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

  

  Martin Short
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