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
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.
[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.
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.
Every market is crowded and competitive, ... and everyone survives based on whether we want to visit that person everyday.
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
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.
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.
We find you have be careful about what you make up, because it'll come back to haunt you. I make up so much stuff, I say it's growing like a snowball.
Years ago, I found that being that excited about something so commonplace, like what to wear on an airplane, was kind of engaging.
Two words, sweetie: Balloon mortgage -- and the need to be loved.
This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ounce of angst about performers' lives, to the point that it becomes more important than whether they can perform.
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.
He is a complete goof and so stylish, I mean everything about Franz is about chic, it doesn't really matter if there's peace in Bosnia as much as if they're beautifully dressed at the peace table.