Best Comic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

“When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.”

Way Writing Firsts Littles Different Novel Five Four Adults Drawing Mysterious Comic Different Ways Grandmother My Grandmother Typewriters Handwriting Comic Strips Scribbles

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?”

Knows Kids Fans Huge Comic

Author:Gary Oldman

“Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.”

People Knows Believe Saws Comedy Don't Believe Comic Believe In Me Did You Know

Author:Al Pacino

“In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Firsts Book Done Rooms Novel Office Comic Florida Comic Book Graphic Screenplays Manuscripts Rewriting Graphic Novels Almost Done

Author:James Patterson

“Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.”

Stuff Cups Comic Tea Cups Of Tea Comic Strips

Author:Guy Pearce

“My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.”

Humor Funny Comedy Safe Jokes British Comic Copies Duplicate

Author:Emo Philips

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

Believe Book Dream Actors Boys Saws Grew Hero Grew Up Comic Movie Comic Book

Author:Elvis Presley

“It's just that... working on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.”

Knows World Has Beens Book Fall Difficult Know How Saws Fans Concepts Green Falling In Love Decades Access Comic Confused Comic Book Lanterns Green Lantern

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.”

Book Lines Huge Reader Series Checks Comic Comic Book Groceries Book Readers

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.”

People Knows Important Night Realizing Know How Fans Comic Oath Lanterns

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.”

Littles Beautiful Girl Female Comic

Author:Joan Rivers

“I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.”

Used Guy Ambition Work Out Comic

Author:Joe Rogan

“I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.”

Mind Generations Fans Huge Comic Transfers

Author:Joe Rogan

“The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.”

Knows Trying Comic Annoying Annoyed Misconception

Author:Joe Rogan

“I mean, I love Comic-Con.”

Mean Comic Comic Con

Author:Seth Rogen

“I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.”

Shows Would Be Remember Guy Spots Comic Remember When Annoyed

Author:Seth Rogen

“Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.”

Ifs Book Bigs Fans Honest Comic Sci Fi Sensibility Comic Book

Author:Seth Rogen

“I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.”

Want Needs Shows Audience Comic Insecurity Insecure

Author:Ray Romano

“Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.”

Looks Book Used Used To Be Comic Comic Book Geek

Author:Eli Roth

“I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.”

Desire Decided Comic

Author:Rita Rudner

“I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.”

Thinking Writing Would Be Views Comedy Harder Comic

Author:Richard Russo

“It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.”

Trying I Can Book Secret Serious Comic

Author:Richard Russo

“For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.”

Writing Form Draws Comic

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.”

Way Art Different Real Artist Study Fields Expression Backgrounds Painter Comic Different Ways Related Designer Graphic Illustrators Graphic Designer

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.”

People Thinking Men Bigs Novel Disappear Comic Belly Graphic Make You Think Graphic Novels Grown Man Pimples Ponytails

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.”

People Thinking Kind Stories Style Technique Mediums Comic Superhero Animation Narration

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.”

Book Fiction Science Fiction Raised Comic Comic Book Science Love

Author:Mayim Bialik

“Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.”

Love Needs Years Funny Marriage Ten Husband Comic Beginners Good Husband

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.”

People Country Dresses Population Comic Comic Con Scoffing

Author:William Shatner

“Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.”

Humor Comic Visuals Commentary

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.”

Book Influence Television Comic Comic Book

Author:Gene Simmons

“I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.”

Thinking Writing Book Home Bigs Used Culture Fans Internet Magazines Comic Mainstream Comic Book Boost Advent

Author:Kevin Smith

“I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.”

Ifs Thinking World Littles Bits Comic Comic Con

Author:Matt Smith

“As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.”

Comic Psychotic

Author:Lewis Black

“I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.”

Jokes Comic Odd

Author:Lewis Black

“From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.”

Long I Can Age Remember Six Jokes Seven Comic Enjoyed Birthday Recalls 60th Birthday Pun

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Mean Reason Comedy Comic Over It Slides Bananas Alleys

Author:Elaine Stritch

“Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Process Emotion Comedy Comic Tragic Separating

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.”

Thinking Way Grows Growing Up Comic Genes

Author:Marlo Thomas

“Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.”

Years Able Mark Comic Supposed To Be Utility Comic Strips

Author:Garry Trudeau

“I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.”

People Mean Stuff Too Much Comic Cynical Disrespect Spirited Disrespectful Mean Spirited

Author:Tracey Ullman

“But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.”

Want Boys Worst Friends Draws My Friends Comic Abomination Noodles

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.”

Ifs Thinking Play Action Guy Chance Lovers Comic Expensive Villain Chances Are

Author:Christopher Walken

“The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.”

World Want Reality Issues Special Ought Logic Comic Dolls Special Places Hobbes Comic Strips

Book:The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!”

Made Three Fun Comic Fairy Crowns Juniors Freshman Sophomore

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.”

Book Kids Age Dad My Dad Comic Hospitals Comic Book Hospitality Hooked

Author:Len Wein

“I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.”

Art I Can Book Can Do Comic Comic Book

Author:Joss Whedon

“I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'”

Thinking Knows Years Made Book Hands Kids Bits Possibility Tiny Comic Executives Comic Book Ninety Cigar Tailors Kids Love

Author:Joss Whedon

“We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.”

Thinking World Doe Drawing Around The World Comic Prophet Relevant Cartoon Comic Strips

Author:Elayne Boosler

“While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.”

Firsts Young Lost Space Cutting One Thing Reader Profit Newspapers Comic Features Owners Editors Throat Reducing Shrinking Readership Comic Strips

Author:Elayne Boosler

Comic Quotes

Related topics

Comic Quotes