Comic Quotes
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A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.
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It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
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I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.
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My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
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I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.
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There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.
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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
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I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
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Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
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'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.
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Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit.
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I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.
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I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
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Pirates are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
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Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
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The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.
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You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
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An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
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If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.
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For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
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I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.
