Comic Quotes - Page 17

• I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.

  Brian Regan

  Smart, Rejection, Comedian

  Source: www.citypaper.com

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  Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Fairy Tale, Tales

  "The Playboy Interview: Stan Lee on Superheroes, Marvel and Being Just Another Pretty Face". Interview with David Hochman, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Soldier, Coal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

  Ricky Gervais

  Laughing, Life Is Like, World

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• Whenever I set out in a new direction, whether it's with a new band or being a frontman or writing a comic book or entering into movie scoring or anything like that, I wouldn’t say that I do it fearlessly...

  Tom Morello

  Book, Writing, Band

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.

  Glenda Jackson

  Drama, Laughing, People

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• Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Integrity, Lying, Mean

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.115, Macmillan

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• From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

  Storm Jameson

  Self, Smell, Pornography

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• We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Education, School, Development

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

  Constance Rourke

  Humor, Men, Tools

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• Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

  Margery Allingham

  Brother, Nice, Apology

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

  Nina Kuscsik

  Inspirational, Funny, Baby

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• Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.

  Dorothy West

  Children, Clothes, Bed

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• The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

  Femi Fani-Kayode

  Confused, Clueless, Character

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• I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the Avengers, I would go with Thor. I would have to. I just think I look the part too much, and I'm a fan of all of them, but Thor would be something that I think I could put on. I think I could make it happen.

  Derek Theler

  Book, Thinking, Superhero

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• George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

  Martin Sheen

  Expression, Crowds, Pardon

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• Comic books are a big passion of mine.

  Taran Killam

  Book, Passion, Bigs

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• I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

  Nathan Fillion

  Art, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Able, Latino

  "Comedian Gabriel Iglesias Talks ‘Stand-Up Revolution’ Season 3: ‘Fluffy’ Dishes On His Role In ‘Magic Mike 2’ & Branding Himself Like Gene Simmons, Larry The Cable Guy & Dane Cook". Interview with Kyle Dowling, mstarsnews.musictimes.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

  Wesley Snipes

  Book, Challenges, Adaptation

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Ernest Cline

  Book, Character, People

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

  Steve Martin

  Originality, Fame, Stand Up Comedy

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

  Ron White

  Comedian, Lame, Television

  Source: www.tv.com

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• If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

  Sarah Silverman

  Writing, Ideas, Stuff Happens

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• A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

  Sherman Alexie

  Use, Comedy, Language

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2000.

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