Top 1200 Comic Strips Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.

I was a huge comic book fan. It's weird because the era of 'Marvel' I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it's not the one that anybody romanticizes.

I played few hero roles in the initial days of my career, but audiences loved me for my comic timing and, therefore, I later turned comedian.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

I'm pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what's happening to me.

I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.

I love Loki. I love so many of the comic runs with his character as well.

In the beginning of our career, we want to make an identity, and I am happy that people think I have good comic timing, and they are casting me in films.

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

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

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

I wasn't ready to be a dog's mother! Trust me, I'm completely unfit and irresponsible. I'm a comic that travels 48 weeks a year, but I make it work, so you can, too.

Comics are actually a lot more difficult to read than I thought they would be. After my second 'Deadpool' comic, I kind of gave up.

Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

Most people think of me as a makeup guru, but might be surprised to know I'm also a trained artist and a huge comic book fan.

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what's going on in the real world than people want to discuss.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

I think you're a comedian as soon as you start. I don't think there's a moment where you become a full comic.

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.

--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

I used to be on a live show with Caroline Flack, and I think I only got on that because I was a comic in Spain and ended up getting on well with her.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.

As a writer - and a romance novelist, no less - I've always found it a bit odd when characters in comic books remain in relationship limbo for years at a time.

Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

It's a huge compliment to be seen as a dramatic actress and not just a comic actress.

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.