Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

Most importantly, how impressive can I be to people that bought tickets, where they never feel, "It was pretty good." If anyone thinks my show was "pretty good," then I've completely failed. I think every comic should think that.

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.

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

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

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.

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

No one is putting comic book writers on the cover of Entertainment Weekly or Vanity Fair. No one cares whether we have cellulite. There are no paparazzi hiding in the bushes of our front yards. Even the wealthiest among us make very little compared to any c-list star. Even the biggest stars in the comics are completely unknown to anyone who doesn't read them.

Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

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

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.

People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

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

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

The comic book world is a tough business.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint.

The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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.

There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

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

There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!

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.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.