Comic Quotes - Page 12

• I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

  Greil Marcus

  Unique, Bob, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Stories, Comedy

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Book, Slave

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• I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

  Mika

  Art, Book, Eye

  "'Grace Kelly's' Mika confesses awkward youth" by Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2009.

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• In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Prime, Stage

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• 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

  People, Crooks, Stories

  "Comics' Barbs Keep White House Hopefuls On The Run" by Thomas J. Brazaitis, The Plain Dealer, p. 4A, March 14, 1992.

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• The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

  George Steiner

  Art, Drama, Forever

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  World, Helping, Jest

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 54), 2006.

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• To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Laughing, Matter, Serious

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Humor, Thinking

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• I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

  Woody Allen

  Laughter, Fall, Thinking

  "'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary.

  Peter Medawar

  Believe, Exercise, Reason

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Compassion, Expansion, Events

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.

  Alex Garland

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• 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

  Book, Guy, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Voice, Comedy, Props

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Mother, Father, Real

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I never go see a comic. The only one I'd ever really want to see is Don Rickles. He might be 80 years old, but he blows everyone out of the water.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Blow, Years, Water

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Who I Am, People, Bars

  "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

  Gene Weingarten

  Use, Weight, Fats

  "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

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• My introduction into Marvel world was Comic-Con 2014 where I really had to take a step back and go, 'What have I walked into? What is this place? It's wild, and there's all these crazy rockstars walking around - who are all older than me, which was really weird. I was like, 'I feel too old to be in a superhero movie,' and they're like 10 years older than me.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Crazy, Years, Superhero

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• In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Mean, World

  "Eisner/Miller". Book by Frank Miller and Will Eisner, 2005.

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• It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

  Frank Miller

  Art, Communication, Fine

  "Eisner/Miller". Book by Frank Miller and Will Eisner, 2005.

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