Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

It's like so great to be in Toronto and to see everything that's in the books and everything they reference and to be able to hang out in those places and go to those bookstores and those comic book stores and those music stores, and like have that, from the books onto the screen, is so cool and I'm glad to have been part of that.

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.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

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

I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

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

I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.

Ive never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.

I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.

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.

I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.

I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

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

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.

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

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

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

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

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 still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.