Comic Quotes

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

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

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

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.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

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

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.

I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

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.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

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

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

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