A Comic Quotes

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

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

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

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

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

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

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

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

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

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

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

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

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

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

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

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

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

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

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

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

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

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

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

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

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

The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.

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

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

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

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.

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

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

I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

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

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

Comic books are a big passion of mine.

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

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

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

Comic-Con is always something that we- we love Comic-Con and we generally have a big presence there. So we usually have something to say there, and just as things come together.