Comic Quotes - Page 38

• I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

  Matt Groening

  Hell, Newspapers, Plans

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• I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.

  Matt Groening

  Years, Ideas, Drawing

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• I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

  Matt Groening

  Book, Kids, Media

  New York Times interview, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 1998.

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• I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Glowing, Males, Female

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• Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Teaching, Drawing

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• At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

  Buddy Hackett

  People, Laughing, Trying

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• As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

  Mohsin Hamid

  Children, Book, Wind

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• I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

  Patricia Heaton

  Book, Shopping, Long

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• Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Acceptance, Creating, Peers

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• I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Book, Cake, Icing

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• What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great.

  Scott Ian

  Book, Walking Dead, Zombie

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• Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

  Scott Ian

  Book, Guy, Nerd

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• Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

  John Irving

  Writing, Dark, Matter

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

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• Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

  Hugh Jackman

  Book, Hero, Character

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• I love comic books and I love anime.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Book, Anime, Comic Book

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• Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

  Penn Jillette

  Bob

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

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• To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

  Penn Jillette

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, America

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

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• The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Book, Kids

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

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• People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.

  Rashida Jones

  People, Comic Con, Stills

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• Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

  Mindy Kaling

  Ideas, Bully, Trying

  "Interview: Mindy Kaling Talks Sex In Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

  Bil Keane

  Lasts, Entertainment, Frontiers

  "'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies", www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.

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• On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

  Bil Keane

  Looks, Magazines, Television

  "'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies", www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

  Anna Kendrick

  Brother, Book, Kids

  "Anna Kendrick on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Interview with Caroline Bankoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 11, 2010.

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• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  Sam Kinison

  Rocks, People, Giants

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• In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

  Dean Koontz

  Literature, Novel, Humans

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