Quotes about Comic (568 quotes)

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. Votes: 5

H. P. Lovecraft

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In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. Votes: 5

George Carlin

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I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best. Votes: 5

Maria Menounos

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If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day. Votes: 5

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned Votes: 5

Kristen Bell

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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. Votes: 5

Elvis Presley

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Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. Votes: 5

Bill Maher

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I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. Votes: 5

Arsenio Hall

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I mean, I love Comic-Con. Votes: 3

Seth Rogen

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Comic-Con is so much fun. Votes: 3

Rutina Wesley

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I haven't been to Comic-Con. Votes: 3

Jeff Bridges

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I was never really a comic-book fanatic. Votes: 3

J. J. Abrams

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My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Votes: 3

Joss Whedon

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Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy. Votes: 3

Denis O'Hare

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Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy. Votes: 3

Denis

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Comic books are a big passion of mine. Votes: 3

Taran Killam

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I've always wanted to come to Comic Con. Votes: 3

Jon Huertas

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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.' Votes: 3

Dick Van Dyke

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Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. Votes: 3

Stan Lee

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Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really. Votes: 3

Guy Pearce

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People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics. Votes: 3

Rashida Jones

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A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic. Votes: 3

Jim Lee

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Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun. Votes: 3

Chris Hardwick

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Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture. Votes: 3

Mike Colter

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People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design. Votes: 3

Vincent Connare

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Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story. Votes: 3

Michael Chabon

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Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along. Votes: 3

Peter Capaldi

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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. Votes: 3

Socrates

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Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. Votes: 3

Darren Aronofsky

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Comic timing is something you are either born with or do not have. Votes: 3

Deepika Padukone

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Comic-Con is overwhelming when you have such a long day of press schedules. Votes: 3

Lyndsy Fonseca

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It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con. Votes: 3

George Clooney

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Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die. Votes: 3

Jim Steranko

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Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit. Votes: 3

Kazuo Koike

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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. Votes: 3

Sally Phillips

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If you can announce the Higgs Boson in Comic Sans, clearly anybody can do anything. Votes: 3

Michael Bierut

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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. Votes: 3

Adam Brody

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Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season. Votes: 3

Kunal Nayyar

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Comic-Con is definitely grown from just being about comics to being about all forms of media. Votes: 3

Eric Wight

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I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned. Votes: 3

Kristen Bell

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I like Comic-Con. It's always nice to talk to people who are fans of 'Children's Hospital.' Votes: 3

Ken Marino

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Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips. Votes: 3

Don Herold

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I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons. Votes: 3

Paula Garces

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I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier. Votes: 3

Matt Smith

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I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book. Votes: 3

Jason David Frank

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Comic-Con is a bizarre world. It's wonderful. It's nice, feeling the love. Everywhere you walk, you feel the love. Votes: 3

Anthony Head

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Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds. Votes: 3

Kunal Nayyar

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Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting. Votes: 3

Erin Morgenstern

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At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. Votes: 3

Jhonen Vasquez

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Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. Votes: 3

Walter Mosley

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I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me. Votes: 3

Brian Posehn

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I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally. Votes: 3

Ken Jennings

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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... Votes: 3

Ernest Hemingway

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'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically. Votes: 3

Ridley Scott

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No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show. Votes: 3

Jim Lee

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Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are. Votes: 3

Colleen Haskell

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The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality. Votes: 3

Bill Maher

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We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. Votes: 3

William Gaddis

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Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. Votes: 3

Shawn Ashmore

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I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books. Votes: 3

Scott Aukerman

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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. Votes: 3

Bill Watterson

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I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world. Votes: 3

Scott Glenn

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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con. Votes: 3

Felicia Day

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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Votes: 3

Nora Ephron

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One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground. Votes: 3

Dave Gibbons

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I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. Votes: 3

Edward Said

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When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show. Votes: 3

Drew Carey

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I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields. Votes: 3

Woody Allen

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I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd tell them, 'Sorry, mate.' Votes: 3

David Bradley

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The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans. Votes: 3

Chris Evans

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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape Votes: 3

Thornton Wilder

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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. Votes: 3

Henri Bergson

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Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet. Votes: 3

Farhan Akhtar

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When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times. Votes: 3

Elvis Presley

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I love comic books and I love anime. Votes: 2

Samuel L. Jackson

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Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. Votes: 2

Paul Scofield

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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax. Votes: 2

Larry King

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When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile. Votes: 2

Mark Hamill

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I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms. Votes: 2

Mika

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I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. Votes: 2

Anthony Bourdain

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I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. Votes: 2

Alexei Sayle

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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid! Votes: 2

R. L. Stine

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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. Votes: 2

Bill Watterson

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People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that. Votes: 2

Bobby Seale

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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. Votes: 2

R. L. Stine

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I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. Votes: 2

Geoffrey Rush

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Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch. Votes: 2

Deepika Padukone

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Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour. Votes: 2

Matt Groening

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When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other. Votes: 2

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things. Votes: 2

Megan Fox

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When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. Votes: 2

Joyce Carol Oates

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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? Votes: 2

Karen DeCrow

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When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' Votes: 2

Nicolas Cage

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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting. Votes: 2

Hannibal Buress

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It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with. Votes: 2

Ryan Reynolds

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I'm a comic book fan. Votes: 0

Michael B. Jordan

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Humanity is a comic role. Votes: 0

Novalis

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I provide a little comic relief. Votes: 0

Anthony Anderson

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I was not a big comic-book reader. Votes: 0

Brad Bird

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I'm actually a little comic nerd myself. Votes: 0

Kiowa Gordon

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Life is tragic but it's equally comic. Votes: 0

John Banville

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I'm not the biggest comic book fan. Votes: 0

Fran Kranz

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I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist. Votes: 0

Dick Gregory

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A married philosopher is a comic character. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. Votes: 0

Dave Attell

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I love comic books. I just do. Votes: 0

Megan Fox

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I'm not a comic person at all. Votes: 0

Ciaran Hinds

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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth. Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem

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Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic. Votes: 0

Bill Hader

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Every comic is really a frustrated rock star. Votes: 0

Alex Borstein

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The whole world makes comic book movies now. Votes: 0

M. Night Shyamalan

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I've always wanted to play more comic parts. Votes: 0

Dominic West

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Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art. Votes: 0

Philip Roth

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I never read comic books as a kid. Votes: 0

Al Jourgensen

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The comic book world is a tough business. Votes: 0

Shia LaBeouf

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. Votes: 0

Darren Aronofsky

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You can't kill a good comic book series. Votes: 0

Stan Lee

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I was into comic books as a kid. Votes: 0

Len Wiseman

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I can do web, comic books, macrame, art. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon

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Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry. Votes: 0

Fredric Wertham

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There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic. Votes: 0

Cristela Alonzo

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Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors. Votes: 0

Chris O'Dowd

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I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. Votes: 0

Alan Ritchson

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Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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I was a big comic book fan from 13 on. Votes: 0

Stephen Root

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I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes. Votes: 0

Jon Huertas

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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic. Votes: 0

Judith Butler

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Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw. Votes: 0

Bill Burr

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I've always had a soft spot for comic books. Votes: 0

Nicolas Cage

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I started as a standup comic and an actor. Votes: 0

Larry Wilmore

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NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. Votes: 0

Leonard Maltin

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I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Votes: 0

Christoph Waltz

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A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny. Votes: 0

Ed Wynn

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Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint. Votes: 0

Duane Swierczynski

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The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets. Votes: 0

Penelope Gilliatt

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One of the first comic things you do is imitate. Votes: 0

Robert Mankoff

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I love comic books and always did as a kid. Votes: 0

Rick Moody

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I have been a fan of comic books since childhood. Votes: 0

Khaled Hosseini

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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up. Votes: 0

Baz Luhrmann

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I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes. Votes: 0

Zack Snyder

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I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up. Votes: 0

Henry Cavill

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I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic. Votes: 0

Eugene Levy

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I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work. Votes: 0

Alonzo Bodden

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Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. Votes: 0

Leslie Fiedler

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Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too. Votes: 0

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City. Votes: 0

Marjane Satrapi

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There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book! Votes: 0

Stan Lee

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Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. Votes: 0

Federico Fellini

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As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture. Votes: 0

Brian Posehn

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I'm a huge comic book fan - me and the kids. Votes: 0

Jada Pinkett Smith

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic. Votes: 0

Alan Rickman

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I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am. Votes: 0

Jason Momoa

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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments. Votes: 0

Dick Cavett

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I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. Votes: 0

Mickey Spillane

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I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. Votes: 0

Mayim Bialik

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We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States. Votes: 0

Majel Barrett

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For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title. Votes: 0

Gabriel Iglesias

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To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard

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My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector. Votes: 0

Michael Shanks

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The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods. Votes: 0

Peter Travers

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Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him. Votes: 0

Penn Jillette

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As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic. Votes: 0

Lewis Black

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I think that comic followers are always waiting for key iconic moments. Votes: 0

Gale Anne Hurd

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He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. Votes: 0

Berkeley Breathed

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I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon

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Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way. Votes: 0

S. Robson Walton

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Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No. Votes: 0

Jason Alexander

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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. Votes: 0

Tim Burton

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I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them. Votes: 0

James Mangold

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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.' Votes: 0

Marjane Satrapi

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I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones. Votes: 0

Nicolas Winding Refn

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My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic. Votes: 0

Rosie O'Donnell

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I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. Votes: 0

Steve Martin

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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. Votes: 0

John Major

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I really want to do a True Blood-Six Feet Under comic book crossover. Votes: 0

Michael McMillian

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I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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I really want to do a 'True Blood-Six Feet Under' comic book crossover. Votes: 0

Michael McMillian

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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents. Votes: 0

Adrian Tomine

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The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected. Votes: 0

Stan Lee

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I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic. Votes: 0

Kristin Gore

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. Votes: 0

Quintilian

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It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist. Votes: 0

Paul Reubens

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I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. Votes: 0

Lynda Barry

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do? Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character. Votes: 0

Celina Jade

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When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage. Votes: 0

Louis C. K.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. Votes: 0

Joan Rivers

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I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan. Votes: 0

Ray Stevenson

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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist, Votes: 0

Brian K. Vaughan

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I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid. Votes: 0

Phil LaMarr

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I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. Votes: 0

David S. Goyer

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Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians. Votes: 0

Andy Biersack

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He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny. Votes: 0

Henny Youngman

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I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. Votes: 0

Len Wein

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The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . Votes: 0

Italo Svevo

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I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor. Votes: 0

Gene Wilder

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I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it. Votes: 0

Josh Brolin

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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs. Votes: 0

Alan Davies

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I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes. Votes: 0

Sandra Bernhard

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Ive never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy. Votes: 0

Sendhil Ramamurthy

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Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet. Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show. Votes: 0

Brent Spiner

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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy. Votes: 0

Colm Meaney

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The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book. Votes: 0

Kelly Hu

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It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny. Votes: 0

Steven Michael Quezada

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It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! Votes: 0

Alice James

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I'm a professional comic. Whether you think I'm funny or not, that's, again, subjective. Votes: 0

David Cross

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My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics. Votes: 0

Adrianne Palicki

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It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor. Votes: 0

Curtis Armstrong

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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. Votes: 0

Alison Bechdel

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In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism. Votes: 0

Constance Rourke

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People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding. Votes: 0

Bray Wyatt

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I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics. Votes: 0

Kellan Lutz

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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately. Votes: 0

Yancy Butler

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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough. Votes: 0

Nathan Fillion

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The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. Votes: 0

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer. Votes: 0

Jim Lee

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In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers Votes: 0

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. Votes: 0

Robert Gottlieb

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It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 0

Tony Taccone

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I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic. Votes: 0

Scott Raab

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I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes. Votes: 0

Len Wiseman

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Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal." Votes: 0

Rob Lowe

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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.) Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert

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My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. Votes: 0

Jonathan Hickman

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To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery. Votes: 0

Stephan Pastis

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If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. Votes: 0

Drew Carey

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Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. Votes: 0

Cynthia Ozick

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In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity. Votes: 0

Frank Miller

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I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic. Votes: 0

Jenny Eclair

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I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books. Votes: 0

Roky Erickson

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I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. Votes: 0

Rita Rudner

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Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool. Votes: 0

Constance Rourke

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When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. Votes: 0

David Sedaris

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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. Votes: 0

Walter Hill

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I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies. Votes: 0

Bob Gunton

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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing. Votes: 0

Uma Thurman

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You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree. Votes: 0

Morena Baccarin

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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. Votes: 0

Harrison Ford

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If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower. Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy. Votes: 0

Simon Kinberg

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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out. Votes: 0

Adam Hughes

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You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. Votes: 0

Sarah Silverman

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Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. Votes: 0

Gerard Way

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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once. Votes: 0

Paul Auster

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Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. Votes: 0

Lev Grossman

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You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character! Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. Votes: 0

Harry Harrison

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I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers, Votes: 0

Gale Anne Hurd

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I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder. Votes: 0

Gene Luen Yang

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Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that. Votes: 0

Gene Weingarten

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Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging. Votes: 0

Wesley Snipes

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I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books. Votes: 0

Jeff Lemire

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Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device. Votes: 0

Seth MacFarlane

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I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies! Votes: 0

Katie Leclerc

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Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve Votes: 0

Simon Pegg

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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic. Votes: 0

Wanda Sykes

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I want to work on the 'True Blood' comic for as long as they'll let me. Votes: 0

Michael McMillian

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I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff. Votes: 0

John Barrowman

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I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much. Votes: 0

Zachary Levi

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You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear. Votes: 0

Johnny Vegas

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I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Votes: 0

Artie Lange

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I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards. Votes: 0

Tracy Morgan

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I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family. Votes: 0

Dave Attell

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I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid. Votes: 0

Simon Baker

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To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations. Votes: 0

Kevin Kwan

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The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint. Votes: 0

Heather McDonald

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Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers. Votes: 0

Avi Arad

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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. Votes: 0

Shigeru Miyamoto

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I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. Votes: 0

Christopher Meloni

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It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. Votes: 0

Mark Gatiss

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It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not. Votes: 0

Jamie McKelvie

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One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. Votes: 0

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out. Votes: 0

Alison Bechdel

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Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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I think there is a difference between comic essays and war reporting, and people can tell that. Votes: 0

David Sedaris

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When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books. Votes: 0

Nathan Fillion

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Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded! Votes: 0

Gilbert Hernandez

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Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan. Votes: 0

Seth Rogen

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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. Votes: 0

Michael Pollan

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I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy Votes: 0

Alison Bechdel

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Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded! Votes: 0

Gilberto Hernandez

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] Votes: 0

Horace

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A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in. Votes: 0

Dylan Thomas

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Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it. Votes: 0

Scarlett Johansson

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I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek. Votes: 0

Eric Kripke

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If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist. Votes: 0

Marko Djurdjevic

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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. Votes: 0

Rita Mae Brown

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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre. Votes: 0

Alexei Sayle

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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing. Votes: 0

Zayn Malik

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If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy. Votes: 0

Megan Fox

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I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5. Votes: 0

Amy Schumer

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THE EXPERIENCE OF READING A COMIC SHOULD NOT BE THE TIME IT TAKES TO TURN EACH PAGE. Votes: 0

Adrian Tomine

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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. Votes: 0

William Congreve

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I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. Votes: 0

Lewis Black

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It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience. Votes: 0

Ray Romano

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I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy. Votes: 0

Andrew Dice Clay

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For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays. Votes: 0

Scott Adams

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Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time. Votes: 0

William Moseley

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The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies. Votes: 0

George Carlin

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You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room. Votes: 0

Iliza Shlesinger

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What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation. Votes: 0

Mark O'Connell

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My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. Votes: 0

Ernest Cline

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As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites. Votes: 0

Kadir Nelson

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I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped. Votes: 0

Kate Beaton

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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd. Votes: 0

Joe Manganiello

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Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over. Votes: 0

Gladys Taber

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The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961. Votes: 0

Michael B. Jordan

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Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. Votes: 0

Jim Woodring

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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. Votes: 0

Ang Lee

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There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends. Votes: 0

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death. Votes: 0

Buddy Hackett

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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard. Votes: 0

Andrew Denton

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George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression. Votes: 0

Martin Sheen

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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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As a comic, you learn to use your voice because you don't have the benefit of visual things. Votes: 0

Jeff Foxworthy

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There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something. Votes: 0

Armando Iannucci

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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado. Votes: 0

Danai Gurira

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George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression. Votes: 0

Martin Sheen

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I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board. Votes: 0

Gabriel Iglesias

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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest. Votes: 0

Rain

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Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes. Votes: 0

Emo Philips

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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. Votes: 0

Eli Roth

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If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both. Votes: 0

S. Robson Walton

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The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book. Votes: 0

Brian K. Vaughan

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I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. Votes: 0

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it. Votes: 0

Matt Smith

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The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it. Votes: 0

Dylan Thomas

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video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing. Votes: 0

Sanjeev Bhaskar

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In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers. Votes: 0

Gabriel Ba

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A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it. Votes: 0

Michael Pena

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I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality. Votes: 0

Terence Stamp

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I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes. Votes: 0

Jamie Hewlett

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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. Votes: 0

John Updike

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Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls. Votes: 0

Garry Trudeau

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I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer. Votes: 0

Niall Matter

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I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid. Votes: 0

Joe Wright

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I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff. Votes: 0

Chad Lindberg

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I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff. Votes: 0

Chad Lindberg

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What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all. Votes: 0

Bill Hicks

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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. Votes: 0

Alexei Sayle

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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it? Votes: 0

Brian K. Vaughan

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My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek. Votes: 0

Matthew Settle

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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem

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[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense. Votes: 0

Ray Stevenson

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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. Votes: 0

Manuel Puig

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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. Votes: 0

Dana Carvey

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I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well. Votes: 0

Steven Moffat

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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read. Votes: 0

Idris Elba

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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. Votes: 0

Russell Baker

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I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. Votes: 0

Louis Dudek

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Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. Votes: 0

Rita Rudner

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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. Votes: 0

Dylan Moran

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A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style. Votes: 0

Buddy Hackett

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No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them. Votes: 0

Chris Morris

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When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen. Votes: 0

Yul Vazquez

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I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius." Votes: 0

Kurt Fuller

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I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories. Votes: 0

Ron Shock

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I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books. Votes: 0

Matt Ryan

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I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter. Votes: 0

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books. Votes: 0

Jimmy Kimmel

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At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. Votes: 0

Avi Arad

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I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics. Votes: 0

Robin Lord Taylor

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Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. Votes: 0

John Irving

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I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC. Votes: 0

Chelsea Cain

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Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont. Votes: 0

Brody Armstrong

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I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic. Votes: 0

Chris Lilley

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As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan. Votes: 0

Marc Guggenheim

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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. Votes: 0

Jeannette Walls

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I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. Votes: 0

Matthew Vaughn

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I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy. Votes: 0

Russell Hornsby

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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax Votes: 0

Larry King

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It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic. Votes: 0

Deirdre O'Kane

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You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book. Votes: 0

Matthew Vaughn

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When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. Votes: 0

Alan King

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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married. Votes: 0

Cathy Guisewite

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The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other. Votes: 0

Harold Ramis

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Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show. Votes: 0

Buddy Hackett

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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. Votes: 0

Grant Morrison

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I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good. Votes: 0

Robert Kirkman

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Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds. Votes: 0

Scott Ian

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I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand. Votes: 0

Alan Robert

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And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face. Votes: 0

Rowan Atkinson

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I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something. Votes: 0

Todd Lowe

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I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. Votes: 0

Tom Perrotta

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Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles. Votes: 0

Marc Webb

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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing. Votes: 0

Judy Gold

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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. Votes: 0

Ang Lee

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Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head. Votes: 0

David Letterman

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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. Votes: 0

Bill Watterson

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I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret. Votes: 0

Bob Monkhouse

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Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist. Votes: 0

Doug Stanhope

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I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films. Votes: 0

Patrice Leconte

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I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something. Votes: 0

Todd Lowe

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Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s. Votes: 0

Melissa Rosenberg

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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. Votes: 0

Virginia Madsen

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An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously. Votes: 0

Bernie Glassman

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The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written. Votes: 0

Ali Sina

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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are. Votes: 0

Wanda Sykes

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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books. Votes: 0

Stan Lee

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Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books. Votes: 0

Jok Church

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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. Votes: 0

Nicolas Cage

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I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do. Votes: 0

Megan Fox

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Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally. Votes: 0

Lenny Bruce

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I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. Votes: 0

Michael Caine

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Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. Votes: 0

Bill Watterson

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Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living. Votes: 0

Dick Gregory

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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. Votes: 0

Harrison Ford

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I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them. Votes: 0

Marcus Brigstocke

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It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next. Votes: 0

Ted Alexandro

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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me. Votes: 0

Rachael Harris

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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book. Votes: 0

Sam Raimi

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If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life. Votes: 0

Charles M. Schulz

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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies. Votes: 0

Melissa Marr

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I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience. Votes: 0

Louie Anderson

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One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. Votes: 0

Jim Lee

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I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. Votes: 0

Anne Frank

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I wouldn't overall say that The Diagnosis it's a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy. Votes: 0

Alan Lightman

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I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style. Votes: 0

Mateus Ward

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For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. Votes: 0

John Updike

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I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch. Votes: 0

Bo Burnham

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Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. Votes: 0

John Oliver

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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith. Votes: 0

Tim Burton

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I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius. Votes: 0

William Gurstelle

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I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it. Votes: 0

Stan Lee

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You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. Votes: 0

Mort Walker

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A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are. Votes: 0

Phyllis Diller

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Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic. Votes: 0

Gerard Way

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I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far. Votes: 0

Bob Hope

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I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'... Votes: 0

Bill Hicks

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If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness. Votes: 0

Dov Davidoff

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Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life. Votes: 0

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake. Votes: 0

Gale Anne Hurd

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I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel. Votes: 0

Dorothy Gish

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You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon. Votes: 0

Kevin Smith

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A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell. Votes: 0

W. C. Fields

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We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living. Votes: 0

Erich Hoeber

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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations. Votes: 0

Ralph Fiennes

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If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there? Votes: 0

Lindsay Hartley

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I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick." Votes: 0

Franz Drameh

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I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up. Votes: 0

Marlo Thomas

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Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. Votes: 0

Jerry Seinfeld

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Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of a fight! Votes: 0

Daniel Cudmore

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I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience. Votes: 0

Ray Romano

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In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away. Votes: 0

Stan Lee

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I always loved Batman, the Michael Keaton 'Batman.' I loved those films, and Superman, but I was never a real comic book geek. Votes: 0

Matt Ryan

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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. Votes: 0

Jerry Seinfeld

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I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer. Votes: 0

Adrian Pasdar

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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things. Votes: 0

Aasif Mandvi

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You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium. Votes: 0

Adrian Tomine

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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto. Votes: 0

Chris Hardwick

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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. Votes: 0

Jesse L. Martin

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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it. Votes: 0

Warren Spector

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Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. Votes: 0

Method Man

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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy. Votes: 0

Al Pacino

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Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you. Votes: 0

Alexei Sayle

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I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon. Votes: 0

Stan Lee

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I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic. Votes: 0

Andrew Dice Clay

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I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well. Votes: 0

David S. Goyer

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I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical. Votes: 0

Lee Van Cleef

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I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with. Votes: 0

Joe Rogan

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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. Votes: 0

Gabriel Iglesias

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I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Votes: 0

Nathan Fillion

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For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form. Votes: 0

Marjane Satrapi

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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face. Votes: 0

James Hillman

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I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy. Votes: 0

J. K. Simmons

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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. Votes: 0

Helen Clark MacInnes

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As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it. Votes: 0

Demetri Martin

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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be. Votes: 0

Frank Miller

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Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it. Votes: 0

Meredith Brooks

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You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else. Votes: 0

Jamie McKelvie

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I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. Votes: 0

Dave Attell

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A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done. Votes: 0

Stephan Pastis

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