Comic Quotes

• My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

  Nora Ephron

  Mom, Mother, Tragedy

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 30, 2011

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• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

  Elvis Presley

  Movie, Dream, Believe

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• When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Movie, Dream

  Elvis Presley's acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (January 16, 1971); later quoted in Jerry Osborne "Elvis - Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (p. 188), August 1999.

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• I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

  Maria Menounos

  Book, Comic Book, Marvel Comics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

  Elvis Presley

  Movie, Dream, Children

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• We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

  William Gaddis

  William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

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• In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Firsts

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

  Jim Carrey

  House, Would Be, Sitting

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• The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Christmas, Girl

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• Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Single, Lying

  "Fictional character: Charlie Brown". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, July 6, 1985.

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• I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

  Wally Wood

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

  Oliver Hardy

  Funny, Humorous, Noise

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• I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

  Jo Brand

  Singing, Trying, Relief

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• Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

  Farhan Akhtar

  Real, Expression, Guy

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• NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

  Leonard Maltin

  Nbc, Anchors, Brian

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• I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

  R. L. Stine

  Book, Kids, Hair

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Draws, Comic Strips, Ifs

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• You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Comic Book, Disappointing, Used

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• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  Nathan Lane

  New York, Emotional, Careers

  "If there's a mouse, call Lane - Actor didn't 'paws' before taking on film" by Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 17, 1999.

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• A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Long, Presidential

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• I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

  Christoph Waltz

  Book, Culture, Familiar

  "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I'm not a comic person at all.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Persons

  "Ciaran Hinds GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarib, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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