Comic quotes
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"I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free."
"Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups."
"Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic."
"It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value."
"I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten."
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"I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic."
"What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all."
"It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!"
"A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic."
"I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time."
"Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work."
"I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct."
"Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy."
"A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in."
"You can't kill a good comic book series."
"Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)"
"There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask."
"I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free."
"It seems like there's never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood."
"I travel alone so much, and the first thought is to grab the damn phone. In airports, just look around. Nobody looks at anybody, or even out the window. It's obvious we can't live without it anymore, and as a comic on the road the phone is an essential tool. It's probably doing more good than bad for me, but it does make me sad that those of us who grew up without mobile phones, we know what we're missing."
"As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it."
"I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything."
"I've always wanted to play more comic parts."
"A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately."
"I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel."
