Comic Quotes

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

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

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

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

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

I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

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

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

Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

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

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.

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

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."

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

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.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

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

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

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

I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

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

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.

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

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

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

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

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

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

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

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

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

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

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

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.

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