Martin Mull Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood is high school with money.

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

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 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.

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.

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.