But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
Quinlan: [leaving strip-club] We're wasting our time here. Dist. Atty. Adair: I wouldn't say that...
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
I was practically The Boy in the Bubble; all my autoimmune responses stripped bare by chemical representations of pine forests and summer meadows.
The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.