Comic Quotes - Page 27

• As far as comic books are concerned, I was always a Marvel guy for the most part, although I did follow DC a little. I don't know, honestly I'd just like to play whatever role [that] not just the studio, but the fans think I fit the best into. Because I think, especially in worlds like that, you've really got to do right by the fan base and stay in tune with what they are looking for and what they desire. I would just want to do right by them.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Thinking, Play

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.

  James Spader

  Growing Up, Book, Sleep

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think about myself having any form or style. Although it does tend to be rather realistic; not too stylised at all, it's not as exaggerated as comic art normally is. I try to go for a more realistic looking approach to my art.

  Marko Djurdjevic

  Art, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book that I did and dreaming about being a comic book artist. That's what the magic is, everything else is just production and a job.

  Marko Djurdjevic

  Dream, Jobs, Book

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

  Marko Djurdjevic

  Book, Kids, Artist

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also knew that you have this strong tradition of martial arts cinema, so even though it's not branded by a novel or a comic book or an old movie or something, we do have the genre itself, which people love.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Strong, Book

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The Daredevil comic book was the first comic book Marvel had ever put out that was an adult R-rated book, so I started with that. When I was creating the series, I just started with that tone, and that edge, and it just kept going.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Creating, Adults

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Character, My Favorite, Bigs

  Source: deadline.com

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• One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.

  Andrew Kreisberg

  Book, Reading, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."

  Tom Cavanagh

  Book, People, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Mean, Simple

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.289, Penguin

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• In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

  Michael Chabon

  Dream, New York, Book

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• A married philosopher is a comic character.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Philosopher, Married

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• That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.

  Topher Grace

  Baseball, Knowing, Actors

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• I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Book, Becoming, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

  Corey Stoll

  Book, Criticism, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

  Eric Kripke

  Writing, Character, Two

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

  Eric Kripke

  Book, Hero, Geek

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.

  Jason Momoa

  Book, Fans, Stills

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

  Morena Baccarin

  Book, Fall, Character

  "Set Visit: Deadpool - Interviews with Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, & more!". Interview with Paul Shirey, www.joblo.com. November 3, 2015.

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• I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Growing Up, Book, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.

  Alison Bechdel

  Character, Men, Names

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• Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. The novel is a comic form. Language is a comic form, and makes jokes in its sleep. God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation. Yet it is also the case that life is horrible, without metaphysical sense, wrecked by chance, pain and the close prospect of death. Out of this is born irony, our dangerous and necessary tool.

  Iris Murdoch

  Pain, Sleep, Laughing

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.80, Penguin

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• I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Book, Tape, Classic

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