Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

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

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

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.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.)

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

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.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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