Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.
[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?
Let's face it - Donald Trump is a very, very good con man.
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 the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don't care. Just don't lie to me.
Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into.
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
Obamacare needs the premiums of healthier people to cover the costs of sicker people. It's a devious con that can only be described as insurance.
We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.
Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.
The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.
I get to act out two roles on 'The Legend of the Blue Sea,' including one as a con man, and so I'll be able to show many diverse sides to me.
I feel like it'll change after the movie [Star Wars] comes out, if it does. It's really the other way around, surprisingly, as far as Con Man goes.
That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.
Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
I go to Comic-Con every year, generally with some project of some sort.
No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.
We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.
I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.
The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.
I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.
[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.
For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.
My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.
I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.
My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.
Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven’t looked for Mr. Right yet.
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.
Comic-Con is a bizarre world. It's wonderful. It's nice, feeling the love. Everywhere you walk, you feel the love.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.
The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.
I love a sexy caper show, and I love shows about con artists.
I come to Comic-Con in San Diego because this is where those fans are - those to whom I owe the longevity of my career.
My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
At this point, I can almost never see myself saying no to a con or a 'Charmed' reunion, because it's so important to so many people I've already met personally.
I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.
My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.
She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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