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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• Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

  Dana Carvey

  Stars, Impossible, Sometimes

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• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Mean, Adults

  "Clowes Speak" by Tad Friend, July 30, 2001.

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• It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Actors

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

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• I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

  Dave Attell

  Writing, Jokes

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

  Dave Attell

  Comedy, Plus, Stand Up Comedy

  "An Interview with Dave Attell". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. October 27, 2003.

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• 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

  Book, Character, Perfect

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• I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

  James Badge Dale

  Couple, Book, Kids

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• The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.

  Jeff Dunham

  Real, Stuff, Married

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

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