Top 1200 Comic-Con Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Some people are so sad that, at times, that's what gets on my nerves - if they just hammer the doom, with no comic relief whatsoever.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

It's only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right?

When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all.

You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room.

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

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.

There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.

I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.

When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

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 guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

All comic-book artists secretly want a successful television or movie project because of the wider audience.

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

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

I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he's someone who he is not.

I'm a big fan of 'Deadpool,' and Rob Liefeld masterpieces are among the other great comic creators and characters.

It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

I was concerned about the viewers' acceptance. But people have found a comic slant in me, which I was never aware of.

I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.

I kept saying I got sick of listening to people's productions, like people who had no ideas, no songs, nothing to say but could still con people's ears into thinking those songs were there by the application of production. I kind of wanted my record a little more honest than that: "Well, this is us. We put a microphone on it. Here it is."

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists hurts themselves as much, if not more, than they benefit from the attention they derive from their actions. Con artists usually benefit from misleading others without sacrificing anything themselves. All my girls have sacrificed plenty.

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

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

He leaped to his feet, grabbed her, and spun her to face him. "No more bullshit, Sin. Feel what you've done." He took her hand and pressed it to her chest, where her heart was pounding painfully fast. So was his. "Let yourself feel something for someone else." ~Con