Comic Quotes - Page 37

• I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

  Lewis Black

  Odd, Jokes

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

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• We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

  Elayne Boosler

  Thinking, Drawing, Cartoon

  "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  Elayne Boosler

  Cutting, Editors, Space

  "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Years, Childhood, Nerd

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Important, Looks

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• I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Boys, Thinking

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.

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• The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

  Jo Brand

  Funny, Trying, Relief

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• I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mean, Dragons, Bulls

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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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Opportunity, Thinking, Often Is

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

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• I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

  Bill Bryson

  Stories, Use, World

  "Travels with a super hero". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2006.

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• Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

  Tim Burton

  Book, Know Me, Knows

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• Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

  Tim Burton

  Book, Kevin, Know Me

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

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• A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

  Phyllis Diller

  Song, Lines, Singers

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

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• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Kids, Passion

  "Interview: Nathan Fillion On Wonder Woman Role". Interview With Stephen Schleicher, majorspoilers.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Nathan Fillion Talks About Wonder Woman". Interview with Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  Nathan Fillion

  Angel, World, Firsts

  "Comic-Con 2011: 'Castle's' Nathan Fillion" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  Harrison Ford

  Travel, Stars, Book

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• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

  Harrison Ford

  Father, Son, Opportunity

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• I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Girlfriend, Growing Up

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• I love comic books. I just do.

  Megan Fox

  Book, Comic Book

  "Exclusive: Megan Fox Talks FRIENDS WITH KIDS, Video Games, Comic Book Movies, THE DICTATOR, Judd Apatow, TRANSFORMERS 3, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 15, 2011.

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• A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nice, Freedom Of Speech, Target

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• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

  Bill Griffith

  Levels, Way, Condescending

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• Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

  Matt Groening

  People, Mind, Trying

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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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.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Going Out, Way

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

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