Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Mull

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Martin Mull.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Martin Eugene Mull is an American actor and comedian who has appeared in many television and film roles. He is also a painter and recording artist. As an actor, he first became known in his role on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spin-off Fernwood 2 Night. Among his other notable roles are Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film Clue, Leon Carp on Roseanne, Willard Kraft on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Vlad Masters/Plasmius on Danny Phantom, and Gene Parmesan on Arrested Development. He had a recurring role on Two and a Half Men as Russell, the drug-using, humorous pharmacist.

American - Actor | Born: August 18, 1943

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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.

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

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.

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.

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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.

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

Martin Mull

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

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

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