Comic Book Quotes

• When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Movie, Dream

  Elvis Presley's acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (January 16, 1971); later quoted in Jerry Osborne "Elvis - Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (p. 188), August 1999.

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• When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

  Elvis Presley

  Movie, Dream, Children

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• I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Long, Greek

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• To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Lazy, Film

  "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Hands, Elegance

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

  Christian Bale

  Who I Am, Superhero, Acting

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• No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

  Alan Moore

  Comic Art, Rorschach, Faces

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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

  Harrison Ford

  Travel, Stars, Book

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• 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.

  Len Wein

  Dad, Book, Kids

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• I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

  Maria Menounos

  Book, Comic, Marvel Comics

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

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• Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  War, Fall, Thinking

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, Home, Men

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• The fact that we're at a point today where anybody, anywhere can put a comic book together and get it in front of the entire planet without spending a dime on printing and distribution - that's the good thing, and I think that's what's going to save [the comics industry]. These young people who have nothing to do with the industry we're in, just going out there and doing their own work and putting it out there, letting people respond to it.

  Darwyn Cooke

  Book, Thinking, People

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• Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Writing, People, Wish

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• The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be engaged if I at least think I know what those two 'somethings' are. They can be simple, they can be complex, but - particularly if you're a beginning writer - I'd rather you err on the side of revealing too much than too little.

  Mark Waid

  Simple, Thinking, Two

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• I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

  Anna Kendrick

  Brother, Book, Kids

  "Anna Kendrick on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Interview with Caroline Bankoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

  Hugh Jackman

  Book, Hero, Character

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• I'm not a comic book guy at all.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Book, Guy, Comic

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• I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Thinking, Sun

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was not a big comic-book reader.

  Brad Bird

  Book, Comic, Bigs

  "We Shine the Spotlight on ARROW Star Grant Gustin". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Opportunity, Territory

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.125, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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