Comic Quotes - Page 32

• I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of the 60s took subjects from consumer products and people - soup cans, comic books, film stars - and elevated them through art, just like in traditional iconography.

  Horace Panter

  Religious, Art, Stars

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.

  Danny Glover

  War, Hero, Character

  Source: progressive.org

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• I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

  Scott Derrickson

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

  Scott Derrickson

  Book, Roots, Interesting

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

  Jay Mohr

  Class, Comedian, Shia

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• Most importantly, how impressive can I be to people that bought tickets, where they never feel, "It was pretty good." If anyone thinks my show was "pretty good," then I've completely failed. I think every comic should think that.

  Jay Mohr

  Thinking, People, Tickets

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five.

  Jay Mohr

  Inability, Want, Nine

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

  George Carlin

  Creativity, Careers, Judging

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.

  George Carlin

  Drug, Albums, Peyote

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

  George Carlin

  Doors, Class, Lines

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

  Tim Burton

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

  Rob Lowe

  Animal, Emphasis

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

  Robin Furth

  Book, Cutting, Eight

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic." You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian Cedric the Entertainer." Even Margaret Cho - who's like one of three Korean performers out there - no one refers to her like that. They say, "It's Margaret Cho."

  Gabriel Iglesias

  African American, Comedian, Three

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Titles, Dropping, Latino

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Character, People, Firsts

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• I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

  Zach Anner

  Way, Insult, Used

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• There's a version of Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] that I think could be heightened. Trying to find the balance. A lot of that comes from "Who is he?" I think we've all kind of met that dude. The comic book enthusiast, or someone who gets too excited about things, but his own enthusiasm tends to alienate him. I relate to it because I've seen that guy.

  Elijah Wood

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I'm a geek of all general types. I like a little bit of everything, I love comic books, I love pro-wrestling, I love video games.

  Ron Funches

  Book, Wrestling, Games

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• A comic, all they have to do is, if you do something funny in a comedy club and you put it up on you tube, it might get a million hits! All it needs to do is resonate with one person who sends it to their friends, who sends it to other people, and before you know it, it has spread virally and BOOM! All of a sudden that person has a name.

  Joe Rogan

  Names, People, Needs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

  Stan Lee

  Communication, Book, Phones

  Source: www.theartsdesk.com

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• Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Book, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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• I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

  Stan Lee

  Educational, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Media, Way

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I could be an alternative comic. I could be that really dark - I was - I was a very dark comic to begin with. I could be that guy, and the only reason I didn't is that I wanted to make money. I wanted to be popular. I wanted to be liked more than I wanted to be admired.

  Louie Anderson

  Dark, Guy, Alternatives

  Source: www.npr.org

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