Excerpt from Peter Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors
In our brief conversation, the last thing I asked Martin was about the many jokes already then being made about his drinking. He shrugged. “They don’t bother me, but they’re a little silly. If anyone drank that much, how long you think people’d keep hirin’ him?” He paused, but not for an answer. “Oh, don’t get me wrong, I drink. But I hardly ever get drunk. I don’t mind the jokes though. Matter of fact, they kinda help the image, you know what I mean?”
