Comic Quotes - Page 25

• You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.

  John Lithgow

  Self, Acting, Overcoming

  "John Lithgow's Killer Role". Interview with Claire Martin, www.thedailybeast.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Earth, Comic Book

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

  Dagur Kari

  Book, Scripts, Serious

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.

  Edward Norton

  Smart, Levels, Way

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• I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

  Wanda Sykes

  Real, Goal, Tvs

  "For Wanda Sykes, 'Funny Always Wins'". Interview with Abdul Ali, www.theroot.com. April 13, 2012.

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• It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Grace, Saving

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Self, Centeredness, World

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Tragedy, Diagnosis

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Fiction, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

  Louis Dudek

  Country, Book, Hockey

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• The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Tourists, Deceit, Needs

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• Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

  Dave Attell

  Baby, Mean, Eight

  Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

  Dave Attell

  Guy, Generations, My Family

  Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• No one really needs to defend drinking. That's something that frustrates me as a comic: I have to play clubs where selling booze runs the business, so crowds get drunk and yell out a bunch of stupid stuff at me.

  Doug Benson

  Running, Stupid, Drinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.

  Matt Groening

  Art, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Opportunity, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

  Simon Pegg

  Humanity, Bills, Hicks

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• I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Honest, Used, Honest Work

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• Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Christian, Husband, Father

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?

  Ted Cruz

  Book, Math, Media

  Ted Cruz at the third GOP debate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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• It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.

  Ted Alexandro

  Mouths, Crowds, Next

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Drawing, Style, Obvious

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Book, Other Cultures

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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