Top 100 Comic Quotes
#1. You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.
Daniel Clowes
#2. Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.
Chris Hardwick
#3. Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman
#4. We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad' ... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.
Alice Lowe
#5. I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
R.L. Stine
#6. I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.
Jo Brand
#8. In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.
Gene Luen Yang
#9. For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
Marjane Satrapi
#10. I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
Joss Whedon
#11. Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing!
Ripley Patton
#12. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.
Judith Merkle Riley
#13. Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.
Michael Dirda
#14. For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.
Clark Gregg
#15. As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#16. I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can ... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!
Tanya Masse
#17. Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.
Andy Biersack
#18. In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
Frank Miller
#19. It's interesting to me; you do four, five or six of these Comic Cons or things like that across the country a year. Obviously, I get busted a lot of 'Weekend at Bernies,' but the fans for horror movies are so wonderful and so loyal.
Terry Kiser
#20. Deadpool's' probably pretty proud of his comic book hero physique.
Cullen Bunn
#21. I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
Ray Stevenson
#23. I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.
Scott Aukerman
#24. I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.
Arvind Ethan David
#25. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
Joss Whedon
#26. Mankind is immortal
in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature
but by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends in
death; the fall in comedy ends in bed, where, by natures's arithmetic,
one and one make a brand new one.
Rose A. Zimbardo
#27. Real life isn't like those comic books you love so much.
James L. Rubart
#28. Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.
Michelle Phan
#29. I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II ... I don't really remember much ... there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.
Rob Cantrell
#31. I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.
Dick Gregory
#32. The mistake ... was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.
Frank Partnoy
#33. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford
#34. Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.
Alison Lurie
#35. For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Quintilian
#36. I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources
Christopher Nolan
#37. Perfectly," replied Syme; "always be comic in a tragedy.
G.K. Chesterton
#38. Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
Danai Gurira
#39. I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.
Kate Beaton
#40. Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
Jim Davis
#41. In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin
#42. I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
Joe Rogan
#43. It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
Sam Kinison
#44. Who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of love ...
John Geddes
#45. Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be.
Dallas Roberts
#46. That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
Todd McFarlane
#47. It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
Christian Slater
#48. Sex appeal was the "spoonful of sugar" that helped the "medicine" of feminism go down. A liberated heroine who still looked sexy would be less threatening to the male readers of comic books.
Mike Madrid
#49. I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
Judith Butler
#50. Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
Trip Adler
#51. That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)
Jamie Delano
#52. We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.
Glenn Danzig
#53. I've gotten more and more cut off from the regular comic-book world, from straight comics and stuff like that. Once in a while, I'll take a look at something.
Harvey Pekar
#54. MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!
Tanya Masse
#55. The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.
Jo Brand
#56. 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.
Joe Rogan
#57. The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.
Sam Worthington
#58. Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.
Bill Burr
#59. I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.
Nikki Reed
#60. You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.
Kevin Smith
#61. I've always had a soft spot for comic books.
Nicolas Cage
#62. What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.
Vanessa Lachey
#63. For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.
Jack Beal
#64. You're not doing a good job of selling me this dumb fantasy. I'm not climbing into the back of your van if I have to be Robin. I'm Batman. That's how these things work.
John Kerry
#65. Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.
Peter Travers
#66. They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!
Tanya Masse
#67. One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.
Seth Godin
#68. Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
Andy Dick
#69. Naked, tattooed men meandered around, lit torches, congregated in groups, spoke in hushed voices. It was like pictures I had seen on the internet of Comic Con, except no one was wearing a cape. And there were no females. So, yes, it was just like Comic Con.
Heather Rigney
#70. Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.
Kunal Nayyar
#71. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
James Frain
#73. Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.
Glenn Danzig
#74. Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
Rob Walton
#75. There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers
#76. My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig
#77. Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.
William, Saroyan
#78. I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
#79. I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who'd been screened. For any comic trying to make something of themselves, that was like hitting triple 7s-jackpot.
Artie Lange
#80. I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit ... or I'm totally a Storm.'
Taran Killam
#81. Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.
Anthony Marra
#82. While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
Elayne Boosler
#83. Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be.
Tanya Masse
#84. If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
Robert Orben
#85. It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.
Paul Reubens
#86. Asking me to do ANYTHING before I've had my first cup of coffee should be an episode on 1000 Ways to DIE.
Tanya Masse
#87. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.
Tanya Masse
#88. Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes.
David Wong
#89. 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.
Scott Glenn
#90. The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.
H.L. Mencken
#91. These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.
William Shatner
#92. I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
Patricia Heaton
#93. Much would happen, but all would be playacting; a noisy, romantic play with a few spots of blood on the comic costumes. This was a country of arrangements, with none of that frenzy of the French;
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#94. If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.
Groucho Marx
#95. I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I am - I would just blend in.
Bobby Lee
#96. My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector
#97. I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.
Mark Hamill
#98. Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman ... come in the guise of a comic ... to heal perception by using ... 'jokes' ...
Bill Hicks
#100. Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot ...
Allen Tate
