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.
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All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
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Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
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David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
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I always do my life around the school year. Around the middle of June, the kids are out of school and we go up to our cottage in Canada.
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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 have a kind of objective luxury about my career.
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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
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I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
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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.
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I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
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I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
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People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
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Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
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Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
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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.
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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.
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You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, "No".
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