Martin Mull Quotes

• 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.

  Martin Mull

• You’d be surprised at how undemanding acting is.

  Martin Mull

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

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• Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

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

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

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• It’s hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

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• 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.

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• Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head.

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

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

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• 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.

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• I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I’ve always had a certain fascination. It’s basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

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• I’ve been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school.

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

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• It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

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Martin Mull (23)

Birth:	18th August, 1943
Nationality:	-
Profession:	Actor, Lyricist, Painter

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