Ed Martin Quotes

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

I don't like scary films. I watched Psycho for the first time recently, alone in the house at night. That was a mistake. I had to call my friend to come over.

No one is any one thing.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.

One of the reasons why they are optimistic is that there is more competition. Red Bull has become more competitive, the races have become more attractive - and that is what fans want!

New York is a place I wanted to come

I think things just tend to fall into place… if you let them.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.

When you love others you aren't nervous.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!

What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence.

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.

Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.

I played Luke Skywalker. Every time we played, I was Luke Skywalker. Nobody else could be Luke Skywalker.

She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.

The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

Find a voice in a whisper.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.