Decarlo Quotes

#1. When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

Dan DeCarlo

#2. I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

Dan DeCarlo

#3. Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both everything and nothing. The signals are everywhere.

Craig Clevenger

#4. My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Raymond Carver

#5. There is no such thing as magic," she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall

Melissa DeCarlo

#6. After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

Dan DeCarlo

#7. 20)1Jesus is not the Christ in himself. 2The Christ is the Son of God, and no one is left outside of the Christ.

Regina Dawn Akers

#8. I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.

Melissa DeCarlo

#9. Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest.

Calista Lynne

#10. If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

Kim Novak

#11. Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Dan DeCarlo

#12. The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

Dan DeCarlo

#13. I don't know what she thinks a Matilda looks like, but I've always thought that I look a little like Gene Wilder, except with longer hair and a vagina.

Melissa DeCarlo

#14. Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

Dan DeCarlo

#15. There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

Dan DeCarlo

#16. JJ informed me, when he dropped them off, that they are French bulldogs, which has led med to reassess my opinion of the French. They may know a lot about making wine and fries, but they don't know jacques-merde about making dogs.

Melissa DeCarlo

#17. God, there's nothing like embarrassing a ginger to improve my mood

Melissa DeCarlo

#18. I thought coming here would change things for me, but I'm starting to worry that I've done what I always do: mistake a distraction for a chance at redemption.

Melissa DeCarlo

#19. Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

Dan DeCarlo

#20. Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Howard Scott

#21. Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.

Melissa DeCarlo

#22. What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Dan DeCarlo

#23. I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

Dan DeCarlo

#24. I pull out a zippered CD case, but unfortunately, it's slim pickens inside, and I say this not only because the choices are bad, which they are, but because there actually is a Slim Pickens CD inside.

Melissa DeCarlo

#25. I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

Dan DeCarlo

#26. May one ask at least to what darkness you are returning? ... For what hell are you leaving, mysterious lady ... or for what paradise?

Gaston Leroux

#27. Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

Dan DeCarlo

#28. That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

Dan DeCarlo

#29. Nick can do a pretty good nice, but it's not the real deal. His is a thin, watery nice, a niceness-au-jus drizzled over a great big asshole sandwich.

Melissa DeCarlo