Comic Quotes

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

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

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

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

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

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.

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

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.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

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.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

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.