Comic Quotes - Page 39

• The comic book world is a tough business.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Book, World, Tough

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• I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

  Artie Lange

  Nocturnal

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• I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

  Hugh Laurie

  Hero, Character, House

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Jan 10, 2012

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• Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

  Ang Lee

  Book, Kids, Playing Games

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• I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

  Ang Lee

  Reading, Book, Way

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• Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

  Jerry Lewis

  People, Laughing, Tables

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• I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Interesting, Tree, Pumps

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Four, Comedy

  "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Comedian, Acting

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

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• I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

  Christopher Meloni

  Smart, Successful, Thinking

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• I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.

  Frank Miller

  Mean, Men, Catholic

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• I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Writing, Artist

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

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• In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Eye, Black And White

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• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Reality

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• As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Kids, Fans, Bigs

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• To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Lazy, Film

  "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.

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• It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Games

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• My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Way

  "Alan Moore: 'Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?'". Interview with Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2013.

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• My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Example, Fans

  "Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman - Q&A". Interview With Subhajit Banerjee, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.

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• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

  Dylan Moran

  Rehearsal, Rooms, Remember

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• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.

  Dylan Moran

  Long, Speech, Rehearsal

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• When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop your own style after a while.

  Kevin Nealon

  Writing, People, Style

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• Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Hey, Actors

  "Interview: Chris O’Dowd on Shooting ‘The Sapphires’ in Vietnam and Taking a Role in ‘Thor 2’ for Fun". Interview with Mark Lukenbill, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Dream, Stupid, Taken

  "Chris O'Dowd: 'People try to set me up with their sisters'". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2011.

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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Grandmother, Typewriters

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