Comic Quotes

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin

Person, Left, Speaks

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

Life, Mother, Understand

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft

Joke, Mankind, Indeed

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.
Bill Maher

Live, Reality, Book

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

Good, Yourself, Husband

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Jim Carrey

Today, Working, House

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

End, Bad, Matter

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.
Megan Fox

Love, Friends, Girlfriend

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

Movies, Hero, Dream

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin

Success, Learning, Comedy

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Tom Stoppard

Age, Long, Remember

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers

Beautiful, Girl, Female

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

Until, Desire, Decided

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.
Bill Watterson

Life, Reality, Special

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

Career, Holidays, Weekends

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman

Book, Revolution, Action

The comic book world is a tough business.
Shia LaBeouf

Business, Book, Tough

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
John Cleese

Great, Death, Sad

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

Important, Kids, Read

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine

Person, Made, American

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
Tim Burton

Book, Read, Knows

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
Twyla Tharp

Soul, Place, Off

I love comic books. I just do.
Megan Fox

I love Comic Con.
Megan Fox

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.
Matt Groening

Good, Mind, Find

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

Find, Big, Reading

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
Rob Walton

Everything, Done, Old

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
Louis C. K.

Young, Leverage

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
David Duchovny

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Alan Rickman

Mind, Serious, Actor

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