Welcome to our curated collection of Comic Quotes! Comics have long been a cherished form of storytelling, blending vivid visuals with captivating narratives to transport readers to fantastical realms and introduce them to iconic characters. Within the colorful pages of comic books, graphic novels, and webcomics, lie pearls of wisdom, wit, and profound reflections on life, love, heroism, and the human condition.
From the whimsical musings of beloved superheroes to the razor-sharp quips of cunning villains, comic quotes have the power to inspire, entertain, and resonate with audiences of all ages. Whether you’re a dedicated fan of the medium or simply appreciate the artistry and creativity behind it, you’ll find a treasure trove of memorable lines and memorable moments within these pages. So, whether you’re seeking a dose of nostalgia, a burst of laughter, or a touch of inspiration, dive into our collection of Comic Quotes and discover the magic within.
Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. Paul Scofield
I’m a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. Dave Attell
Sleep is important for a comic – like it is for a lot of people. Tom Segura
A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ for instance, are studs. Stephen Merchant
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. Tom Stoppard
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. Jim Carrey
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. Joyce Carol Oates
Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you’re doing it right, it’s actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience… the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter. Dave Rubin
I used to watch all these great fat women in the audience laughing at the comic, and I would think how wonderful it would be to be that man. He was surrounded by pretty girls, he obviously got more money than anyone else, and everyone loved him. Benny Hill
I think you’re a comedian as soon as you start. I don’t think there’s a moment where you become a full comic. Ari Shaffir
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn’t tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic – even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn’t tell you that. Bobby Seale
I read the ‘Deadpool’ series back in the ’90s. I’m not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I’ll check out ‘Archie’ when I’m in the grocery line, but that’s about it. Ryan Reynolds
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
Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comic who I believe is one of the finest in the world. Russell Howard
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it. Joan Rivers
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. Jerry Seinfeld
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
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are. Phyllis Diller
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused. Darren Aronofsky
I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I’ve ever read. Idris Elba
I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I’d been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn’t have been a comic. Dudley Moore
I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels. Octavia Spencer
All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience. Mark Waid
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it. Ben Stiller
The discussion of ‘V for Vendetta’ – on Pinocchio Theory in particular – has been far more interesting than the film deserved. Yes, there is a certain frission in seeing a major Hollywood movie refusing to unequivocally condemn terrorism, but the political analysis in the film (as in the original comic) is really rather threadbare. Mark Fisher
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don’t read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them. J. M. Coetzee
Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work on some comic stories, and after a while, I developed an idea for a weird little superhero spoof comic called ‘Cement Shooz.’ Christopher McCulloch
I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist. Dick Gregory
I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars. Mort Walker
I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest. Rain
Wouldn’t want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn’t want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn’t mind having a crack at something like the Punisher. Garth Ennis
A good comic explores the imagination, but it’s always got to have those notes of truth running through it. Michael Pena
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Steve Martin
I didn’t read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Tarzan’ and that kind of stuff. Jesse L. Martin
I just love comic books. I’ve always loved comic book art, and I just think it’s amazing. Zayn Malik
When I meet thousands of fans of the comic – when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath (‘In Brightest Day, in blackest night…’) – I know how important this is to people. Ryan Reynolds
Shirin Farhad’ is a romantic tale of an unmarried couple who feel they can live together forever. Having crossed the marriageable age, what happens to them forms the crux of the story. The movie has several comic sequences with an emotional touch to it. Farah Khan
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer. Bill Watterson
I’m a schoolteacher. That’s even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they’re often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you’ll pardon the expression. Martin Sheen
There’s no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They’re going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude. Gary Owen
Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you’re putting the cart before the horse. Ted Naifeh
And the comic Daniel Kitson, he makes very good pies. I think he made one with feta, it was incredible. King of the pies. Roisin Conaty
Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen’s wonderful – this sort of comedy coming from her. I mean, all of her books are comic. Whit Stillman
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things. Dick Cavett
I guest-starred on ‘Alf.’ I played a stand-up comic Howie Anderson. John Pinette
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. Walter Dean Myers
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn’t really have. A photograph, even if it’s connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes. Daniel Clowes
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. Umberto Eco
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
After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic. Akira Toriyama
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. Eve Babitz
Whether I’m doing music or I’m walking down the street or I’m in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I’m buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it’s the same me. Glenn Danzig
As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic. Lewis Black
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I’m in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour. Matt Groening
We’re having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States. Majel Barrett
Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today’s masterpiece is tomorrow’s birdcage lining. Anthony Marra
Woody Allen’s movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can’t even locate it any more. Noah Baumbach
I don’t see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I’m very aware that I don’t like to disrespect people too much. Tracey Ullman
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. H. P. Lovecraft
‘Watchmen’ is not only the greatest comic ever written, it’s a really important work of fiction. Gerard Way
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It’s not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family. Bill Bryson
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me. Richard Russo
Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it’s a work of genius. It’s very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don’t expect in a silly-looking comic strip. Matt Groening
I’ve been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don’t tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It’s not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family. Bill Bryson
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren’t a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. Michael Caine
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. Harrison Ford
I’m a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that’s what I write about. Frank Miller
Patrice O’Neal is the best comic I ever saw. Bill Burr
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. Mayim Bialik
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that. Jim Gaffigan
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. Henry Ossawa Tanner
I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain’s greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive – and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger – or my own reputation. Geoffrey Rush
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. Joan Rivers
Once I found out that I was playing ‘Deathlok,’ I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there. J. August Richards
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. Marguerite Gardiner
Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much. Ta-Nehisi Coates
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard. Richard Russo
This kind of stuff, it wasn’t the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies, anime, manga, and I’ve been doing it for a long time. Mike Daniels
I feel like when you call me inspirational, it takes away from the success that I’ve actually had. Would you say that to any other comic that just ripped the mic for an hour? Josh Blue
Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I’m a geek, so I love the fact Peter Parker is into science. And I gravitate towards short guys. I’m 5′ 9″ now, but in junior high, I got picked on because I was 4′ 8″. Josh Keaton
I’m a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can’t really separate the two. Dave Pirner
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic. Judith Butler
I’m a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I’m a huge ‘Wolverine’ fan, I like the ‘X-Men’ comic book. Jason David Frank
There’s a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer. Milton Berle
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures… I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture. Alejandro Jodorowsky
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate – unlike most films. Alan Moore
Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn’t that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story. Jim Lee
It’s a cliche, but it’s true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. Mark Gatiss
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’ve always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination. James Herbert
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I’d never seen a rock and roll show, I’d never seen a comic or a show. Penn Jillette
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise. Alan Moore
The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it’s all in jest and all for fun. Lisa Lampanelli
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. Josh Keaton
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain. Paul Auster
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron
Seth Meyers and I wrote a ‘Spider-Man’ comic. Bill Hader
Usually, like, on ‘Mean Girls,’ the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don’t really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it’s for a brief emotional scene, and then we’re going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy. Mark Waters
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. George Carlin
