Martin Short

Martin Hayter Short, CM (born 26 March 1950), is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, impressionist, singer and dancer. He is also a naturalized American citizen.

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Years ago, I found that being that excited about something so commonplace, like what to wear on an airplane, was kind of engaging.

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

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 know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, "No".

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

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.