Quotes of: Comic-book Keyword

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Russell Baker

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

Robert Kirkman

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Sinbad

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

Stephan Pastis

There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.

Suzanne Somers

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

Sue Townsend

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Toyin Odutola

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

Karl Urban

I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.

Matt Smith

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

Marlo Thomas

With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.

Martin Freeman

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

Gabriel Iglesias

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

Eddie Campbell

The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.

Joss Whedon

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Guillermo del Toro

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

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

Rufus Sewell

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

Denise Mina

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

Scott McCloud

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Christopher Walken

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Michael Pollan