Quotes of: Standup-comic Keyword

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

Mark Hamill

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

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

Daniel Clowes

We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

Djimon Hounsou

I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.

Janeane Garofalo

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

Peter Dinklage

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Robert M. Hutchins

Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.

Erin Morgenstern

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Nick Cave

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Aberjhani

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

Jamie Hewlett

Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.

Johnny Vegas

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

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

Chris Hardwick

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

Chad Lindberg

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Chris Lilley

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

Harvey Pekar

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Billy Graham

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

Brendan Gleeson

A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.

Buddy Hackett