Martin Mull Quotes

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

Martin Mull

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Important
  • Song
  • Meaning

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friendship
  • Will
  • Naked

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Math

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Poverty
  • Understand
  • Shows

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Love
  • Support
  • Emotional

• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Together
  • Serious

• Roughneck and rudeness, We should be using, On the ones who practice wicked charms, For the sword and the stone, Bad to the bone, Battle’s not over, Even when it's won, And when a child is born into this world, It has no concept, Of the tone the skin is living in.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • World
  • Bad
  • Practice

• I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • School
  • Law
  • Justice

• Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Time
  • Live
  • Family

• I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Blue

• I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

  

  Max Burns
  • Life
  • Family

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

  

  Martin Mull
  • School
  • Business
  • High