#comic

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arrived #buster #carrey #clowns #comedy

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything. ↗

— Val Guest

#bits #bits and pieces #comedy #comics #contract

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#book #comic #comic book #especially #fans

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#equality

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont. ↗

— Brody Armstrong

#dante #found #out #record #ryan

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character. ↗

— Karl Urban

#character #comic #envisioned #i #never

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#had #i #just #little #old

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#comics #i #i love #individual #love

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#i #interesting #internet #just #me