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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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"Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things."
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"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
"When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have."
"I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford."
"I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King."
"Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'."
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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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"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
"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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