Martin Short
Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short CMis a Canadian-American actor, comedian, writer, voice actor, singer and producer. He is known for his work on the television programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He has starred in comedy films, such as Three Amigos, Innerspace, Three Fugitives, Father of the Bride, Pure Luck, Father of the Bride Part II, Mars Attacks!and Jungle 2 Jungle, and created the characters Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. He has won a Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Musical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 March 1950
CityHamilton, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.
The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.
I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.
An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
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.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.