Garth Ennis Quotes

#1. I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

Adam McKay

#2. Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

James Marsden

#3. I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

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#4. Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?'

'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry.

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#5. That's what you get when a bunch of fucks in tights try to save the goddamn day.

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#6. The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

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#7. There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

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#8. You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got..."

"Well then you've got nothin.

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#9. I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

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#10. You gotta be one of the good guys, 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

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#11. I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

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#12. Well if I ever stick a cape on an' start usin' ordinary human bein's to wipe me arse with, you'll know you were right to worry, won't you?

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#13. Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

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#14. It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.

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#15. You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

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#16. Sheriff Root: "Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers"
Deputy: "How you reckon that, Sheriff Root?"
Sheriff Root: "Kinda thing they do"
Deputy: "What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that?"
Sheriff Root: "MARTIAN niggers

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#17. With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

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#18. An interesting man. He was a last minute replacement as Bush's running mate, when the original candidate managed to say "Thy Kingdom Cunt" at a prayer breakfast.

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#19. It doesn't matter who you are,or how good you got things. Sooner or later,shit goes wrong for everybody. Sooner or later,there comes a time when all you want to do is shout Fuck you to the world.

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#20. Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet.

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#21. I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

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#22. God: But it is my creation...!

The Saint of Killers: It's outgrown you.

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#23. Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

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#24. You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie.
You had too nice an upbringing.
Your mom and dad were too good to you.
And I wish you could see that you're not less of a MAN, or some sort of inferior person, just because you can't be harsh and hard and cold.

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#25. I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

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#26. No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done.

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#27. It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

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#28. I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.

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#29. I guess this is where they send the abortions that live.

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#30. Larger than life character; a couple of hundred years ago he would have been a pirate. "When in evil company, try to blend in" - that was one of his.

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#31. Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

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#32. Remember the seven Ps.

Seven what?

Proper preparation and planning... Prevent piss-poor performance.

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#33. We ain't got time for a goddamn poetry recital. An' your juices feel like rain on the inferno? What the fuck is that, is that from the letter you wrote to penthouse?

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#34. If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

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#35. Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.

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#36. I'm sweetness an' motherfuckin' light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit' love.

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#37. It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

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#38. Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?

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#39. You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

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#40. After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.

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#41. Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

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#42. When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin, things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.

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#43. Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock!

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#44. I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.

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#45. Fuck, that's good. That's habit-formin'.

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#46. Preacher: "This is the word of God!"
Constantine: "The edited word of God

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#47. Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things.

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#48. The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

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#49. Dude, are you like English or something--?

Yeah, That's right, dude. I'm like English.

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#50. ...so I looked at this kid from West Texas, feelin' all cut up an' betrayed 'cause he suddenly realized the Land of the Free been fuckin' him in the ass all his life--an' I told myself, 'Shit, so that's what it's like to be the white boy. Any nigga you ask can tell you that's how America works.

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#51. I can melt steel, fucker, I'll microwave your guts and punch them our your asshole.

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#52. Men are only so much use. Men are boys.

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#53. I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

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#54. There'd be no point trynna blackmail a bloke everyone already knows is a cunt, would there?

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#55. Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

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#56. Folks love fantasy. Beasts the shit outta reality and day of the week.

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#57. Tension demands release. Unusual tension demands release that can only be described as appalling.

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#58. An' you turn your back on your friend, you may as well go ahead an' join the asshole squad, 'cause you just became one more reason why the damn world's gone to hell.

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#59. As the old saying goes: With great power comes the total fuckin' certainty that you're gonna turn into a cunt.

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#60. We've the whole wide world out there waiting for us, and we've forever to make the most've it. And that's the thing: enjoyin' life. Not livin' death, or anything stupid like that.

What've we got to fear except the sun?

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#61. They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.

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#62. You know you can be a real bitch sometimes."

"I can be a perfect cunt.

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#63. I'm the perfect girl. You read about me in Maxim or whatever. I tell dirty jokes like I'm one of the guys, and I'm sitting there in my panties and bra so you can see I'm a piece of ass in the bargain. Except I'm real, so I come with all kinds of complications.

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#64. I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill my children, Don Franchetti'.

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#65. I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

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#66. I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.

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#67. All right, funny man. Some of the shite I've seen in the last couple o' years makes AIDS monkeys sound downright sensible.

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#68. Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

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#69. Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

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#70. I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!

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#71. ..."ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad.

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#72. Fuck with the bull, you get the horns.

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#73. Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker!

Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a lot of dick on the goddamn menu! Now grunt twice for yes! You through bitchin'?

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#74. Christ, I think I'd grow old if I lost you.

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#75. Wait a minute, even I've hearda him. He died savin' the entire universe.

Choked on cum...

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#76. As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

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#77. What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart ... and your father casts you out ... and you fall.

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