Comic Quotes

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. (Joan Rivers)

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Shawn Ashmore

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

Edward Said

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.

Nora Ephron

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

William Congreve

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

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Harrison Ford

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Darren Aronofsky

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics. (Mark Millar)

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

Harvey Pekar

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Bill Griffith

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Bill Griffith

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

Chester Brown

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

Debra Wilson

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

Eddie Campbell

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Matthew Vaughn

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

Method Man

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. (Alain de Botton)

Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist.

Doug Stanhope

In comic strips, the person on the right always speaks first.

George Carlin

This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.

José Ortega y Gasset

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

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