Comic Quotes

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

I provide a little comic relief.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

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.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.

I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

If you can announce the Higgs Boson in Comic Sans, clearly anybody can do anything.

The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it."

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

Verbing weirds language.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

I love bad comedy more than I love good comedy, so I love open mics. Or I used to. But the thing that delights me more than anything else in an open-mic performer is when the comic has one joke that requires some kind of prop. But only one. The prop is always produced very awkwardly, and it never, ever pays off. The resulting embarrassment is savory and delicious.

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

Humanity is a comic role.

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

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.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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

I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.