Quotes of: Standup-comic Keyword

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

Carol Leifer

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Harvey Pekar

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Harvey Pekar

I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

Ian Mckellen

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Ellen Forney

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Evangeline Lilly

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Bill Griffith

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

Gilbert Hernandez

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

Geoffrey Rush

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Harrison Ford

I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I had 'The Flash' Underoos.

Jesse L. Martin

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.

Joe Madureira

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

Joe Rogan

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

Joe Sacco

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Jhonen Vasquez

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Daniel Clowes

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Daniel Clowes

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

Dave Gibbons