Comic Quotes · Page 36

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

— Henny Youngman

All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has…

— Joseph Rusling Meeker

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

— Lewis Black

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

— Bernie Glassman

The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic…

— Shaquille O'Neal

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

— Anonymous

Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition…

— Marleen S. Barr

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as…

— Dave Gibbons

Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we…

— Frank Miller

Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most…

— Daniel Clowes

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in…

— Dick Gregory

I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the…

— Kevin Keck

I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of…

— Danny Bonaduce

I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake…

— Omar Sy

I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company,…

— Brian Regan

We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the…

— Dave Hunt

The comic book world is a tough business.

— Shia LaBeouf

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.”

— Mark Long

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

— Ang Lee

But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I…

— Marina Keegan

Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

— Alan Moore

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

It's a privilege and honor to write and star in my own comic. I can officially cross that off the bucket list!

— Charlamagne tha God

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink,…

— Dave Sim