Martin Short Quotes

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

If you are not the best, then pretend you are

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.

Overconfidence has never been my problem.

I'm not talent. Not considered 'talent' by Lifetime. I'd like to say I'm their savior, but that would be cocky.

Everybody in the world knows how good I am.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

False confidence is false confidence.

There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

Anyone can look big and strong and fast against weak opponents.

I don't like false modesty.

I always thought that I was going to be up there, whether it's was in the top 20, top 10, and I wasn't training hard, but I thought, you know... my strength, my presence, my talent would just keep me up there, without really training hard and really committing myself to the game.

The Vixen character is not quite me. A part of that is putting up this huge front of being strong, impenetrable, really tough and a little bit condescending.