Martin Mull Quotes

I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Hollywood is high school with money.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

In the eyes of my dog, I'm a man.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen