Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Bryan Lee O'Malley

The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'

I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.

Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride.

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?

I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

These shoes are Mr Silly's shoes, Scott.

Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. Because you'll be dust on Monday. Because I'll be pulverizing you sometime over the weekend. And the cleaning lady... cleans up... dust. She dusts. And she has weekends off, so... Monday. Right?

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.

I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.

Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

?All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.

Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'

What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey." -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?

Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.

Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?' Uh... you know. Pretty good.' Have you said the L-Word yet?' The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?' Uh... No. The other L-Word.' ?' Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.