Comic Quotes - Page 40

• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

  Gary Oldman

  Kids, Fans, Knows

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• Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, People, Saws

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• In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

  Guy Pearce

  Tea, Stuff, Cups

  "Guy Pearce on Batman, Being Offered Daredevil, and Avoiding Terrible Scripts". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, People, Common

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

  Harvey Pekar

  Kids, Stories, Stuff

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• My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Safe

  "If you enjoyed those 'Peter Kay' one-liners in your inbox, they were probably written by Emo Philips" by James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2010.

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• It's just that... working on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Falling In Love, Confused, Book

  "Reynolds Not Keen On Justice League" by Ali Plumb, www.empireonline.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Book, Lines, Checks

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• When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Night, People, Important

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• There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

  Joan Rivers

  Beautiful, Girl, Female

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 10 May 1974

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• I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

  Joe Rogan

  Ambition, Work Out, Guy

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• I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

  Joe Rogan

  Mind, Fans, Generations

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• The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

  Joe Rogan

  Annoyed, Trying, Annoying

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• I mean, I love Comic-Con.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, Comic Con

  "Seth Rogan Interview MONSTERS VS ALIENS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. January 11, 2009.

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• I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.

  Seth Rogen

  Guy, Annoyed, Would Be

  "Seth Rogen Talks Hosting the 2012 Spirit Awards, THE APOCALYPSE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 2, His Favorite Films of the Year, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

  Seth Rogen

  Book, Fans, Honest

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• I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

  Ray Romano

  Insecure, Insecurity, Needs

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• Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

  Eli Roth

  Book, Looks, Geek

  "Q&A: Eli Roth on The Last Exorcism Part II and Being Horror's Whipping Boy". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

  Rita Rudner

  Desire, Decided

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• I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Secret, Trying

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• For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Form, Draws

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2012.

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• My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Real, Expression

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• People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Thinking, People

  "How to film a graphic novel". June 16, 2011.

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