Dc Comics Quotes

• All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

  Alan Moore

  Bad Day, Men, Alive

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

  Frank Miller

  Gentleman, Safe, Gotham

  "Batman: Year One". Comic book by Frank Miller, 1987.

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• Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

  Alan Moore

  Doors, Forever, Locks

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• ...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

  Alan Moore

  Crazy, Black, World

  Song: The Killing Joke

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• It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

  Alan Moore

  Laughing, Sides, Killing

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

  George A. Romero

  Guy, Stuff, Moral

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I've been using easy-to-understand DC Comics-surrogates to describe him: imagine if Darkseid's son, Orion, joined the Green Lantern Corps to train them to stop Darkseid. That's essentially what Victory is doing in the Galactic Rangers.

  Sterling Gates

  Son, Victory, Orion

  "Sterling Gates Takes On Jack Kirby's 'Captain Victory'". Comic Vine Interview, comicvine.gamespot.com. August 29, 2011.

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• When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

  Celina Jade

  Character, Firsts, Auditions

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• I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

  Chester Brown

  Teenage, Reading, Years

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• I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Character, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Running, Casts, Tied

  "Q&A – Thor’s Jaimie Alexander on Marvel Spoilers, Her Geeky Roots, and Wonder Woman’s Breasts". Interview with Christian Chung, www.amc.com. May 2011.

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• My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

  Wes Craven

  Mother, Let Me

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.

  Mike Royer

  Proud, Fabulous, Connections

  "HomeInterviews Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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