Comic Quotes - Page 11

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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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• 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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• He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:
  This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.
  Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits
  This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

  Robert Graves

  Philosophy, Drawing, Rabbits

  Robert Graves, Lucia Graves (1995). “Complete short stories”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

  James Hillman

  Fun, Play, White

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Media, Fiction

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drama, Character, Cat

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.489, Library of America

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• There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Light

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• This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

  Kristen Bell

  New York, Fun, Real

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• Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

  Jim Woodring

  Book, Hands, Alternatives

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• You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Book, Writing

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• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Baby, Grateful, Grace

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• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Cities

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• If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Girl, Men, Doe

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• I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style.

  Stephen Foster

  Song, Order, People

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• Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker.

  Troy Walker

  Writing, School, Law

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• I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

  Henry Cavill

  Growing Up, Book, Growing

  "‘Man of Steel’: Henry Cavill found ‘essential’ insight in ‘Red Son’". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.

  Kristen Bell

  Fashion, Mean, Passionate

  "10 Things To Know About Kristen Bell, The Sweet Actress Who Loves Potty Humor" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. March 14, 2012.

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• There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own.  I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Real, Book, Character

  "Jesse Eisenberg talks Lex Luthor". www.gamesradar.com. August 29, 2014.

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• I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

  Ben Affleck

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

  Christian Slater

  Real, Book, Dark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As you've witnessed, Catwoman is the ultimate diva. From the pages of comic books to both small and big screens, Catwoman continues to evolve and mature like a true cat. Catwoman, is a unique breed, never taking the same form twice. But whatever form she takes, she'll always reign supreme. A dog maybe man's best friend, but a cat is everyone's favourite feline fatale.

  Eartha Kitt

  Dog, Book, Cat

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

  Norman Mailer

  Sandman, Comic Strips

  "Dream come true: Neil Gaiman to create new Sandman 'prequel'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

  Jim Parsons

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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

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