Martin Short

“You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.”

“When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.”

“There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.”

“I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.”

“One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.”

“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.”

“Trump is Trump. Some people find him hilarious. I don't find it hilarious, but you can't say it's dull. There's nothing credible about Donald Trump.”

“The mark of the man is how he responds to situations. You're not going to avoid tough times. We're all over the barrel some of the time. What are you going to do about it?”

“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.”