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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."

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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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Donna Grant

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Donna Grant

"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."

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Donna Grant

"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

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Donna Grant

"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds."

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Donna Grant

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right."

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Donna Grant

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

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Donna Grant

"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade."

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Donna Grant

"That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard."

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Donna Grant

"I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important."

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

Mother

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Martin Short
"I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about."

Life

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Martin Short
"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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Martin Short
"I have a kind of objective luxury about my career."

Career

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Martin Short
"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

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Martin Short
"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."

People

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Martin Short
"People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue."

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Martin Short
"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."

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Martin Short
"Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence."

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

Trying

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