Comic Quotes

I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
Chester Brown

Thinking, Give, Possible

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.
Stephen Root

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
Patrice Leconte

Hate, Understand, Why

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
Michael Shanks

Brother, Books, Boxes

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
Dick Cavett

Comedy, Since, Painful

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

Book, Stuff, Hands

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.
Roy Lichtenstein

Matter, Rather, Tree

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban

Character, Play, Reading

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
Lorrie Moore

Funny, Nature, Human

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
Jon Lovitz

Money, Him, After

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.
Kelly Hu

Book, Serious, Fans

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
Curtis Armstrong

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
David Carradine

Before, Books, Talking

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
Mickey Spillane

Famous, Writing, America

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
Donal Logue

Book, Pretty, Film

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.
Jhonen Vasquez

Happy, Friends, Her

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
Jhonen Vasquez

Fact, Used, Guy

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
Colm Meaney

Good, Writing, Hard

When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
Michael Clarke Duncan

Keep, Used, Almost

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.
Kevin McDonald

Moments, Directors

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
Pedro Almodovar

Film, Silent, Second

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.
Jay Mohr

Angry, Playing, Felt

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
Dominic West

Play, Wanted, Parts

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.
Michael Patrick King

Character, Sex, Laughter

I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.
Michael Patrick King

Love, Women, Story

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.
Patrick Warburton

Character, Book, Him

I'm not a comic person at all.
Ciaran Hinds

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.
Scott McCloud

Good, Pretty, Getting

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
Ashley Scott

Learning, Book, Mean

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.
Jeffrey Jones

Serious, Matter, Actor

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