Martin Short Quotes
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.
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The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
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Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.
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I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.
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I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
