top of page
"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Question quotes

"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."

"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?"

"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."

"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about."

"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."

"The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders."
Explore more quotes by Martin Short

"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."

"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."

"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."

"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."

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