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"I have a kind of objective luxury about my career."
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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
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"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."
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"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."
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"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."
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"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."
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"I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person."
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"I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street."
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"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."
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"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."
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"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
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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."
Martin
"I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about."
Life
"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
Mother
"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."
Family
"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."
Character
"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."
Trying
"I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit."
People
"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."
Funny
"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."
Expectation
"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."
Death
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