A Comic Quotes

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

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

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

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

The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.

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

It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

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

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.

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

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

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

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

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

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

Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

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.

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

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

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

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

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

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I am - I would just blend in.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

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

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

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

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

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

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

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.