Comic Quotes · Page 88

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

So my friend's little brother pretended he was Superman, and I whispered to my friend that it was too imaginative. His brother…

— Anonymous

I wasn't a Superman guy - I didn't like the invincible superhero who always wins. Who can get behind someone like that?

— Edge

My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo…

— Bob Peterson

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

— James McAvoy

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

— Harrison Ford

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

— Gail Simone

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

— Osamu Tezuka

When I go down to Comic-Con in San Diego, people remember me for some of the strangest things. They go on and…

— Ray Wise

There are so many different Batman fans, and all of them approach it from a different place. You have the people who…

— Tracy Hickman

I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr.…

— John Lewis

The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast.…

— Ira Glass

Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I…

— Henry Cavill

With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there.…

— George Newbern

All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in…

— Mark Waid

The challenges in taking any IP into any other platform are best met by empowering the individuals that can work best in…

— Jeph Loeb

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to…

— Maggie Q

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

— Hugh Mackay

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss…

— Kevin Smith

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

— Karl Urban

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is…

— Martin Filler

“Comics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.”

— R.C. Harvey

[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Mr. Sandman (Ye-es)Bring Me A Dream - But let's discuss the rules first 1) No Clowns 2)No Snakes 3)If it's THAT kind…

— Sarah Moores

My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide…

— Jim Starlin

We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd…

— Zack Snyder

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my…

— Jim Davis

If I had to direct or produce a show, it would be about a young Black girl who is a superhero and…

— Skai Jackson

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

— Craig Silvey

I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero…

— Taika Waititi

Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind…

— Edgar Wright

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“Frogs. We all want their long tongues and jumping power, but aspiring superheroes rarely consider the benefits of growing up as sperm.”

— Bauvard

“I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a…

— Saul Bellow

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

— RuPaul

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy…

— W. C. Fields

Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I wrote a graphic novel that came out in 2011 called 'Everlast.' We had a really successful run with that.

— Chad Michael Murray

Be The Splash Of Color That Brightens Their Day, Be The Superhero That Takes The Villains Away. Be The Light That Ends…

— Chardonnay Tyson

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic…

— Bobby Seale