Comic Quotes

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

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

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.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

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.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

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.

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

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.