Comic Quotes

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

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

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

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.

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

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

I provide a little comic relief.

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

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

Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

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

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

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.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

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

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

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

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

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