Comic famous quotes

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.
-- Adrianne Palicki

#Brother #Book #Comic

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.
-- Alan Ritchson

#Growing Up #Book #Comic

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Trying #Grind #Comic

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
-- Alice James

#Age #Comic #Ninety

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
-- Alison Bechdel

#Trying #Comic #Wells

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
-- Andrew Denton

#Comedy #Comic #Middle

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.
-- Andrew Dice Clay

#Voice #Comedy #Comic

I provide a little comic relief.
-- Anthony Anderson

#Relief #Littles #Comic

I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
-- Artie Lange

#Nocturnal #Comic

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
-- Avi Arad

#Book #Aviation #Comic

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
-- Avi Arad

#People #Aviation #Comic

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
-- Bil Keane

#Lasts #Entertainment #Comic

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.
-- Bill Watterson

#Real #Comic #Animation

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Book #Years #Comic

I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.
-- Bob Gunton

#Fans #Comic #Bigs

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
-- Bobby Darin

#Comedian #Comic #Distinction

I was not a big comic-book reader.
-- Brad Bird

#Book #Comic #Bigs

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
-- Brian Michael Bendis

#Art #Book #Comic

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.
-- Brian Posehn

#Culture #Comic #Used

Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.
-- Chris Ware

#Mind #Pages #Comic

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
-- Christoph Waltz

#Book #Culture #Comic

I'm not a comic person at all.
-- Ciaran Hinds

#Comic #Persons

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
-- Colm Meaney

#Writing #Comedy #Comic

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
-- Danai Gurira

#Book #Comic Book #Comic

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Book #Comic #Graphic Novels

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.
-- Dave Attell

#Comedy #Comic #Plus

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
-- Dave Attell

#Writing #Comic #Jokes

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
-- David Copperfield

#Relief #Comic #Tricks

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.
-- David S. Goyer

#Book #Comic #Interest

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
-- Dick Gregory

#Comic #Humorists

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
-- Dominic West

#Play #Comic #Wanted

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.
-- Don Herold

#Art #Husband #Comic

I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.
-- Dorothy Gish

#People #Way #Comic

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.
-- Drew Carey

#Stars #Tvs #Comic

A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.
-- Ed Wynn

#Funny Things #Comedian #Comic

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
-- Emo Philips

#Safe #Comedy #Comic

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Strange #Comic #Young

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.
-- Eugene Levy

#Guy #Comic #Jokes

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
-- Federico Fellini

#Imagination #Literature #Comic

It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.
-- Frank Miller

#Art #Communication #Comic

I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.
-- Gabriel Iglesias

#Want #Able #Comic

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Years #Able #Comic

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
-- Gary Oldman

#Kids #Fans #Comic

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
-- Gene Weingarten

#Use #Weight #Comic

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.
-- Grant Morrison

#People #Comic #Reader

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
-- H. P. Lovecraft

#World #Comic #Mankind

All great humorists are sad.... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest--the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
-- H. P. Lovecraft

#World #Helping #Comic

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
-- Harvey Cox

#Struggle #World #Comic

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.
-- Harvey Pekar

#Book #Internet #Comic

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.
-- Henry Cavill

#Growing Up #Book #Comic

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
-- Horace

#Poetry #Matter #Comic

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
-- J. J. Abrams

#Book #Comic Book #Comic

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
-- Jamie Hewlett

#Book #Comedy #Comic

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.
-- Jamie McKelvie

#Disappointing #Comic #Used

I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.
-- Jay Mohr

#Kids #Clubs #Comic

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Today #Comic #Enormous

I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.
-- Jenny Eclair

#Needs #Attention #Comic

Everything is in how you are going to handle it. As a lifelong nightclub comic, I'm ready to handle whatever I have to handle.
-- Jerry Seinfeld

#Comic #Lifelong #Ready

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.
-- Jim Steranko

#Book #Villain #Comic

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
-- John Banville

#Life Is #Comic #Tragic

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
-- John Major

#Forever #Actors #Comic

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.
-- Johnny Vegas

#Las Vegas #Comic #Stage

I've always wanted to come to Comic Con.
-- Jon Huertas

#Comic #Comic Con #Wanted

The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.
-- Joss Whedon

#World #Comic #Adore

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
-- Judith Butler

#Thinking #Comic #Position

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.
-- Kate Beaton

#Horse #Intelligent #Comic

Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit.
-- Kazuo Koike

#Character #Comic #Wells

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.
-- Kelly Sue DeConnick

#Book #Trying #Comic

I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.
-- Kiowa Gordon

#Nerd #Littles #Comic

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.
-- Kunal Nayyar

#Crowds #Lines #Comic

I started as a standup comic and an actor.
-- Larry Wilmore

#Actors #Comic

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
-- Leonard Maltin

#Nbc #Anchors #Comic

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
-- Leslie Fiedler

#Comic #Stills

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.
-- Lewis Black

#Psychotic #Comic

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
-- Louisa May Alcott

#Tongue #Spirit #Comic

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
-- Lynda Barry

#Remember #Wave #Comic

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Comic #Touring #Hotel

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

#Respect #May #Comic

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.
-- Maria Menounos

#Book #Comic Book #Comic

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.
-- Martin Sheen

#Expression #Crowds #Comic

I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.
-- Matthew Settle

#Book #Geek #Comic

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
-- Matthew Vaughn

#Book #Comic Book #Comic

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
-- Mayim Bialik

#Book #Fiction #Comic

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.
-- Michael Pena

#Running #Imagination #Comic

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
-- Michael Shanks

#Brother #Book #Comic

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.
-- Nick Kroll

#Mind #Boring #Comic

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Book #Interesting #Comic

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
-- Paul Scofield

#Cheating #Comic #Quiz

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
-- Quintilian

#Reason #Comic

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
-- Rachael Harris

#People #Sides #Comic

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.
-- Rashida Jones

#People #Comic #Comic Con

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Book #Lines #Comic

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
-- S. Robson Walton

#Football #Games #Comic

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
-- S. Robson Walton

#Way #Done #Comic

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
-- Sandra Bernhard

#Comic #Performers #Jokes

Form and content must never apologize for each other.
-- Scott McCloud

#Book #Apologizing #Comic

I mean, I love Comic-Con.
-- Seth Rogen

#Mean #Comic #Comic Con

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto

#Kids #Fans #Comic

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.
-- Simon Kinberg

#Book #Comic Book #Comic

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.
-- Stan Lee

#Book #Fairy Tale #Comic