I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.
I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.
Doing comic roles is a great relief considering the power-packed roles that are usually offered to me.
I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.
In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.
I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.
You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.
I always respected Luke Cage and thought that he was interesting, and I really liked what Brian Michael Bendis did in his update of the character in 'Alias,' the comic.
My dream was to be the biggest comic with the biggest band, touring together.
I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.
Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.
From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.
I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.
I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board.
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
Comic fans are some of the toughest fans to please, and I'm one of them.
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.
Essentially, what I do on 'Supergirl' is I'm acting out comic vignettes. That is its own muscle to flex, and it is its own skill.
One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.
Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.
The comic hobbyists world is so passionate about the details and the lore and the more you get into that, the more interesting it is for you.
I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."
Bob Harras' personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character.
Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.
People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
'Avengers' was a great comic-book movie. 'The Dark Knight Rises' is a great epic.
I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.
A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.
The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.
When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.
There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.
I think nobody knows more about comic book characters than Seth Green. I thought I knew a lot, and he leaves me in the dust.
'Vadhaiyan Ji Vadhaiyan' offers a fresh comic take.
I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons.
Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.
Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.
I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that has always interested me, whether in TV or comic books.
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