Quotes About Comic Book Characters

#1. I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.

Raymond E. Feist

#2. Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

Grant Morrison

#3. The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.

M. Night Shyamalan

#4. I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.

Jon Huertas

#5. Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I ... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

Marc Guggenheim

#6. I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#7. As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

James Badge Dale

#8. As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

Kadir Nelson

#9. He'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done.

Louise Penny

#10. It wasn't even one of those stoic pimples that goes quietly when you pop it; this one was cystic and painful and had roots that seemed to extend into my brain.

Mindy Kaling

#11. I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

James Mangold

#12. I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

Zachary Levi

#13. I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Joe Manganiello

#14. That afternoon I ordered an information packet.

Jeff Dunham

#15. My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

Ernest Cline

#16. Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

George Clooney

#17. Love obeys no laws

Lauren Oliver

#18. My own grandmother used to call it the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine.

Stephen King

#19. We're building the ultimate experience for fun, flexibility, and empowerment where you can rent a car, fill it with discounted gas, meet new people, stop for a Starbucks coffee, and have your earnings deposited into your bank account all in the same day.

Logan Green

#20. My wife, ladies and gentlemen. Beauty, brains, and now brawn.

Richelle Mead

#21. They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and plays: they are a source of great stories and colorful characters.

Michael Uslan

#22. For the record," I interject, "I don't agree with Lo. I'm not a comic book elitist." Anyone can read comics, and if you don't it's perfectly okay to enjoy the characters in other mediums.

Krista Ritchie

#23. I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh perspective to things because I'm not trying to match anything that's been done in the past.

Roger Craig Smith

#24. Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

#26. I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

Domo Genesis

#27. To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

Ted Koppel

#28. The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.

Cullen Bunn

#29. God can only show you eternity if you are willing to let go completely of the now.

Sean Patrick Brennan

#30. I'm a big comic book person. I love Captain America. I like John Henry. I'm hoping to play one of the superhero characters that's coming from Marvel.

Tom Lister Jr.

#31. Face Book keeps asking me to complete my relationship status; I doubt it has the soul of a gossip magazine column's starving journalist.

Shahla Khan

#32. Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again.

Vendela Vida

#33. My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

Alan Moore

#34. One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.

Andrew Kreisberg

#35. It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

Alan Moore

#36. One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

Roger Ebert

#37. 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