Bobby Short famous quotes

03-28-2025

  • I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

  • Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

  • Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

  • Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

  • I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

  • I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

  • I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.

  • In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.

  • (Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

  • It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.