Comic Book Quotes

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
- Sherman Alexie

He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.
- Sherman Alexie

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
- Avi Arad

I'm not a comic book guy at all.
- Darren Aronofsky

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

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
- Shawn Ashmore

Oh, please, if its ass is feathered and waterproof, its a duck. Hello, pictures with little word balloons makes it a comic book. They're dorky comic books for nerdy antisocial, nonbathing people. End of discussion.
- P C Cast

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
- Alison Bechdel

We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look *anywhere* for a mythology that embraces people like ourselves.
- Kate Bornstein

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
- Adam Brody

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.
- Chester Brown

I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
- Chester Brown

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
- Tim Burton

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.
- Nicolas Cage

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
- Nicolas Cage

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
- David Carradine

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
- Michael Chabon

The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of injurious consequences of their reading, and dwelled on the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life.
- Michael Chabon

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
- Daniel Clowes

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau.
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
- Leonard Cohen

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
- Elvis Presley

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

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.
- Glenn Danzig

He called me an asshole and said, "I'll bury you!" like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head offI'm not your toy! Your puppet! Your whore! I'm a human goddamn being and I expect to be treated as such! Instead I told him I didn't want to be buried, I want to be cremated. And I want my ashes stored in a disco ball he can hang over his desk.
- Tiffanie Debartolo

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
- Dan Decarlo

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.
- Dan Decarlo

I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation.
- Chris Dee

Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
- Kat Dennings

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?
- Richard Donner

When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
- Michael Clarke Duncan

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
- Umberto Eco

The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident.
- Dave Eggers

The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
- Chris Evans

I love comic books. I just do.
- Megan Fox

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
- Megan Fox

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
- Neil Gaiman

I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.
- Janice Galloway

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.
- Steven Moffat

I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I dont know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way
- Cynthia Hand

I did get so wigged out that I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I don't know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way, but it was the only thing I could think to do.
- Cynthia Hand

Hart and Hope," I muttered. "If you're going to name your kids like that, of course they're going to think they live in a comic book.
- Alyxandra Harvey

You look like you belong in a bad comic book," I told him cheerfully.
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"What did the Drakes do that's got you all pissy?"
"Pissy? Did you just call me pissy?
- Alyxandra Harvey

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
- Patricia Heaton

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!
- Gilbert Hernandez

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
- Patrick Warburton

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
- Carl Hiaasen

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and all that jazz. Anna use to be the abstinence poster girl, but post-Shaw you could write a comic book about the many adventures of her vagina. It could wear a cape.
- Michelle Hodkin

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
- Erich Hoeber

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
- Christian Slater

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
- Robert M Hutchins

I love comic books and I love anime.
- Samuel L Jackson

I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.
- Jeremy Renner

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
- Paul Kane

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.
- Anna Kendrick

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.
- Jimmy Kimmel

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
- Donal Logue

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

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
- Bill Maher

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.
- Todd Mcfarlane

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
- Todd Mcfarlane

Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you with their brains. Give you a whopping headache and earworm you with annoying jingles, yes; kill you, no. (Although sometimes, when she's managed to stick "The Happy Banana Song" in my head for a week, I sort of wish she could kill people with her brain. It would be kinder.)
- Seanan Mcguire

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.
- Maria Menounos

I love comic books and always did as a kid.
- Rick Moody

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

It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you've got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch. -- Co.Create Online, 2-14-12
- Alan Moore

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
- Walter Mosley

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
- Bill Mumy

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
- Bill Mumy

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.
- Dennis Muren

Find anything about the Blade?" Billy let out an explosive sigh and creaked back in his chair, hands folded behind his head.
"Comic book references. Stuff about some swordsman named Bob Anderson. Wesley Snipes pictures."
"Really?" I perked up, edging around his desk to try to get a look at the screen. "Any half-naked ones?" "Joanie!"
I drooped. "I didn't think so. There wasn't nearly enough half-naked Wesley in those movies, anyway.
- C E Murphy

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
- Harvey Pekar

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
- Harvey Pekar

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
- Harvey Pekar

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
- Harvey Pekar

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
- Harvey Pekar

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

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.
- Bill Watterson

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
- Bill Watterson

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
- Sam Raimi

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.
- Mark Roberts

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.
- Stephen Root

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
- Edward Said

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
- Ashley Scott

The world of [comic book] collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.
- Seth

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman.
- Joel Silver

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
- Dave Sim

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
- Gene Simmons

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
- Joe Simon

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
- Joe Simon

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.
- Bryan Singer

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
- Mickey Spillane

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
- Terence Stamp

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
- Aaron Stanford

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
- R L Stine

Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American wayfor them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA
- Rob Thurman

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.
- Jennifer Tilly

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia.
- Guillermo Del Toro

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
- Jhonen Vasquez

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
- Matthew Vaughn

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
- Matthew Vaughn

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.
- Rob Walton

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.
- Chris Ware

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
- Len Wein

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
- Joss Whedon

I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.
- Len Wiseman

I was into comic books as a kid.
- Len Wiseman

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
- Jim Woodring