Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

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

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

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

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

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

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

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

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Comic-Con is definitely grown from just being about comics to being about all forms of media.

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

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

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

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.

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

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.

Comic timing is something you are either born with or do not have.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

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

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal.

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.

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

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title.

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.

For us it's always about making sure that there's substance, that things are well thought out, they're real, they're going to happen versus just haphazardly making Hollywood type announcements. So that's where we are there [on Comic-Con], just making sure that when we do something to say that it's something.

Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed.

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

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.

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

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

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

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.