A Comic Quotes

A married philosopher is a comic character.

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

I was very dirty; I was a very dirty comic. There was no way I would have gotten on TV with the act I had when I first started.

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

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

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

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

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

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

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

I don't know if I could [do a TV show]. I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.

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

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

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

The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

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

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

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

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

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

Really, though, I just want to make the kind of comics I wouldn't be embarrassed to read in public.

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

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'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

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

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

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

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.