Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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

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

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

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.

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 didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

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

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

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

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

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

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

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

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

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

If you can announce the Higgs Boson in Comic Sans, clearly anybody can do anything.

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

I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.

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

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

I love bad comedy more than I love good comedy, so I love open mics. Or I used to. But the thing that delights me more than anything else in an open-mic performer is when the comic has one joke that requires some kind of prop. But only one. The prop is always produced very awkwardly, and it never, ever pays off. The resulting embarrassment is savory and delicious.

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.