Comic Quotes - Page 8

• When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

  Drew Carey

  Comedian, Honor, Relief

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

  Drew Carey

  Two, Guy, Cleveland

  "Drew Carey remembers when The Tonight Show really meant something". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Long, Office

  "Nick Cave Sings the Blues". Interview with Brian Orloff, www.rollingstone.com. October 22, 2004.

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• Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

  Dick Cavett

  Pain, Feet, Years

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• I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

  Margaret Cho

  Dog, Husband, Artist

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• I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

  Margaret Cho

  Fun, Artist, People

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• I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

  John Cleese

  Friendly, Actors, Television

  "Remembering Ronnie: tributes to Ronnie Barker", www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2005.

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• My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

  David Copperfield

  Relief, Tricks, Evolve

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• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

  John Cusack

  Real, Flip, Nightmare

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• When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

  Louis C. K.

  Young

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• I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

  Bobby Darin

  Comedian, Distinction, Wells

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• One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Character, Superhero

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.

  Jenny Eclair

  Needs, Attention, Plans

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• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Fantasy Novels, Malaysia

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. 2008.

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• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  Umberto Eco

  Opposites, Feelings, Perception

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

  Idris Elba

  Kids, Men, Spiders

  "Idris Elba GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Group interview, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Book, Want, Film

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• I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Adventure, Geek

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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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