Comic Quotes - Page 28

• It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Night, Long

  "Cashing in on political comedy" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. September 22, 2012.

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• I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.

  Rob Cantrell

  Yelling, People, Guy

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• I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

  Ken Jennings

  Kids, Vacation, Souvenirs

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Mar 15, 2012

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• To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.

  James Randi

  Laughter, Book, Character

  Skeptic Magazine, Volume 3, No. 4, 1995.

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• What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

  Dean Koontz

  Tears, Looks, Might

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.213, Bantam

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• Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

  Seth Gabel

  Book, Stories, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

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• The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

  Len Wein

  Book, Worry, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

  Len Wein

  Art, Book, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• My casting process was slightly different and slightly interesting insofar as I knew everybody could act. That's something you've seen. You know people can. You've seen them on the screen and you think either they're a good actor or a bad actor. So that's not the point. What I wanted to do was find people who I thought would have a similar comic sensibility.

  Dan Mazer

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books...

  Adi Shankar

  Book, School, Web Content

  "Producer Adi Shankar Talks TRUTH IN JOURNALISM Short, the Success of DIRTY LAUNDRY, Casting Ryan Kwanten, Shared Universes, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 31, 2013.

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• The Marvel cinematic universe and the Marvel animation universe are things that are very true, in terms of the DNA of what it is. But if, at the end of the day, all we're doing is telling stories that have appeared in the comic books already, then we're not really challenging anybody.

  Jeph Loeb

  Book, Dna, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean.

  Simon Pegg

  Dad, Father, Blood

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I think that you're very aware that you're shooting a 3D film for a movie that's beloved to the fan community, and that it's going to be on people's radar, and that you have to be excellent. I think it evolved over time how epic it has become. The first time we went to Comic-Con after we finished shooting I went, "oh my goodness, oh my goodness!"

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Thinking, Epic, People

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.

  Mark Millar

  Girl, Daughter, Book

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. "Hey, we should do something together."

  Mark Millar

  Artist, Circles, Together

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm very lucky that I have this other career that runs alongside my comic career, which is a film career, and I've been given this really lovely setup where they seem to make the movies very quickly as well.

  Mark Millar

  Running, Careers, Lovely

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Men, Years

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• There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Taken, Mean

  "Mark Millar On Empress, Star Wars Influences, And Why He's Doing More Female-Led Comics". Interview with Joshua Yehl, za.ign.com. March 15, 2016.

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• When that character and the X-Force appeared, they took the comic world by storm. You have to look at those numbers. And you see that that isn't Rob Liefeld's only creation. There's all these other things, like Cable and Domino. There's so many things that actually could be fascinating onscreen and unlike anything you've ever seen before onscreen. So I think Fox is in a really nice position where they've got something that feels as wide and different as the Marvel Universe.

  Mark Millar

  Nice, Character, Thinking

  "Mark Millar On Empress, Star Wars Influences, And Why He's Doing More Female-Led Comics". Interview with Joshua Yehl, za.ign.com. March 15, 2016.

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• I wasn't a great improviser when I started there; I'm not really up on current events. I would always just mug, just try to get my laughs from making faces. So I decided to do a character who should never have become a comic - somebody you would see at the Comedy Store and go, "This person is never going to make it."

  Paul Reubens

  Character, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

  Paul Reubens

  Artist, Easier, Performances

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.

  Francoise Mouly

  Eye, Son, Hands

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.

  Francoise Mouly

  Narrative, Visuals, Intertwined

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."

  Missi Pyle

  Fun, Children, Heart

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

  Larry Wilmore

  Ghetto, Style, Hollywood

  Source: www.wbur.org

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