Jim Lee Quotes

As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

Jim Lee

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• My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Long
  • Live
  • Money

• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Water
  • Myself
  • Naked

• I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Crazy
  • Find
  • Ageing

• Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • Words
  • Day

• I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Child

• God only knows what else is on the web about me.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • God
  • Me
  • Only

• So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Kids
  • Opportunity
  • National

• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Opportunity
  • Service
  • Acting

• My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Me

• Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

  

  Banks
  • Like
  • Emotional
  • Passionate

• The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • World
  • America
  • Find

• I promote peace and positivity.

  

  T.I.
  • Peace

• My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Life
  • Why
  • Art

• …of course, keep-fit people are no good in bed…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Good

• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Sleep

• You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

  

  James Carville

• Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Littles

• As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Waiting
  • Scared

• Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd just started. And it just blew my head off. I had like an afro at the time, too. It was a bit all over the place. And it wasn't a thing to have an afro. No, that's kind of quite old school. You're supposed to have like a neatly cut shaped up haircut.

  

  Michael Kiwanuka
  • Kind
  • Place
  • Guitar

• As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

  

  Jim Lee