Comic Quotes

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

  Nora Ephron

  Mom, Mother, Tragedy

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 30, 2011

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

  Elvis Presley

  Movie, Dream, Believe

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• 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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• If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

  Oliver Hardy

  Funny, Humorous, Noise

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• We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

  William Gaddis

  William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

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

  Maria Menounos

  Book, Comic Book, Marvel Comics

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

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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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• In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Firsts

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  House, Would Be, Sitting

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• I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Single, Lying

  "Fictional character: Charlie Brown". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, July 6, 1985.

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• The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Christmas, Girl

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• Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

  Wally Wood

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

  Jo Brand

  Singing, Trying, Relief

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• Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

  Paul Auster

  Life Is, Tragic

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

  Farhan Akhtar

  Real, Expression, Guy

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• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Talking

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• I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• We have a whole other division, where we actually literally take the comic book and animate it. Our feeling was that, if this was going to be our show and that it was going to be a brand new show, it has to be more adventures with these characters, in the same way that, through the years, there have been long runs on the comic book series. It's the same characters, with different voices, along the way.

  Jeph Loeb

  Running, Book, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

  Steve Martin

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Every day is a brand-new, completely crazy fantasy-adventure, where I'm either kicking ass or kicking balls. It's all part of the job. All of that is really fun for everyone. It plays like a comic book superhero.

  Gabriel Luna

  Jobs, Fun, Crazy

  Source: collider.com

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• I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

  James Mangold

  Book, Kids, Comic Book

  Source: collider.com

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• What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.

  Tim Reid

  Years, White, Air

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