Comic Quotes - Page 19

• He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Might, Comedy

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I'm trying to find ways of achieving that in my films.

  Dave McKean

  Reading, Creativity, Creative

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

  Kadir Nelson

  Book, Hero, Character

  "Kadir Nelson: In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks.net interview at California studio in San Diego County, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint.

  Heather McDonald

  Important, Robust, Standpoint

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• The most important thing as a comic and a writer is to have a strong point of view. I have one and can recognise it in others which is why I can write for other people and different characters that I perform.

  Heather McDonald

  Strong, Writing, Character

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• I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.

  William Katt

  Book, Artist, Squares

  Source: comicsand.blogspot.com

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• I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Comedian, Next

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• I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why.

  Christoph Waltz

  Book, Intellectual, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.

  Seth

  Book, Evil, Guy

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• I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

  Joe Wright

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

  Art Spiegelman

  Ambition, Reality, Understanding

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

  David Duchovny

  Book, Character, Blood

  "The X-Files: I Want To Believe - David Duchovny interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.

  Bruce Timm

  Book, Character, Looks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.

  Virginia Madsen

  Book, Reading, Son

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from May 03, 2017

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• I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil. She was in the comic books at some point but the way the writers created her or we always talked about her, was that she was torn with her powers taking over and trying to control them at the same time. It was challenging to play which made it interesting for me to play this character.

  Famke Janssen

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "The Phoenix Rises as Famke Janssen and James Marsden Talk X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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• I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

  Matthew William Goode

  Book, Worry, Needs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You're always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Technology, Engineering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it was more in the direction of where it was headed. I didn't have a clue as to the drawing style, because the drawing style that I was groomed on from the beginning was newspaper comic strips, which were much more conventional.

  Jules Feiffer

  Strong, Ideas, Drawing

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Earth, Comic Book

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

  Dagur Kari

  Book, Scripts, Serious

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.

  Edward Norton

  Smart, Levels, Way

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• In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Self, Centeredness, World

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Tragedy, Diagnosis

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Fiction, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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