Comic Quotes

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.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

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

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

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.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

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.

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.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

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

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.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

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.