Comic-Con Quotes 2004
Coments made at various panels during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.
See also our con report, con photos and cosplay photos.
Action |
Tropes |
MirrorMask |
New Line |
Farscape |
Serenity
Kicking Serious Butt
Thursday evening panel about balancing action and character development.
- Is this chocolate or is this soap?
This is a convention. It’s soap. - Peter David, John Ringo, 22-Jul-2004
- The good news is, it’s chocolate. The bad news is, I forgot to take the wrapper off.
- Peter David, 22-Jul-2004
- I know where you live.
Yeah, and you never come over and get your stuff. - Maryelizabeth Hart (Moderator), Steve Saffel (?), 22-Jul-2004
- I played D&D exactly once . . . I was transformed into a thistle. They carried me around in a backpack for three hours, and at the end I was a thistle with experience.
- Peter David, 22-Jul-2004
- These guys are all lying to you, by the way.
Yeah, but we’re professional liars. - Harry Harrison, Peter David, 22-Jul-2004
Tropes of Science Fiction/Fantasy
Friday afternoon panel about using elements from mythology and fairy tales in modern writing.
- We have a moderator now, let’s ask her what we’re talking about.
- Greg Keyes, 23-Jul-2004
- I’ll mess with anything that moves.
Nobody move! - Nancy Holder, Peter David, 23-Jul-2004
- Length of time required to siege a castle: 18,000 hits. And they’re all pornography.
- Peter David, 23-Jul-2004
MirrorMask
Friday afternoon preview and Q&A with Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. (See also our write-up of the MirrorMask preview.)
- It’s like Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast... on acid... for kids.
- Unnamed Sony exec as relayed by Neil Gaiman, 23-Jul-2004
- If it keeps expanding like this, by the year 2015 the entire U.S. economy will depend on Comic-Con.
- Neil Gaiman, 23-Jul-2004
- It’s a render cottage garden.
- Neil Gaiman, 23-Jul-2004
New Line Cinema (Blade III and ROTK)
Friday evening previews and Q&A with various New Line staff and actors from Blade: Trinity, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and a couple of other movies that didn’t result in any good quotes.
- . . . and he’s looking at me like he’s going to turn me into ass pudding . . .
- Ryan Reynolds, 23-Jul-2004
- There’s not much you can use a skull for.
- Billy Boyd, 23-Jul-2004
- He [Michael Pellerin] will honestly say things like, “Remember the time you were in Twizel, and you had the bad pizza, and you had to sit in the toilet for three days?” And you eventually go, “Oh yeah, I remember!” . . . Not that that actually happened.
- Billy Boyd, 23-Jul-2004
- He [Orlando Bloom] sat there and did 3 1/2 hours of commentary while we piled blankets on him.
- Michael Pellerin, 23-Jul-2004
- He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples . . . And I’ve never seen him so happy.
- Billy Boyd, 23-Jul-2004
- . . . he goes to the . . . I don’t know what you call it, in Australia we call it the ATM, the automatic teller machine, what do you call it? . . . Oh, the ATM! It’s the same! It’s amazing the connection we have here between the two countries.
- David Wenham, 23-Jul-2004
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Saturday afternoon preview and Q&A with producers and actors from Farscape. (See also our write-up of the Farscape preview.)
- You guys rock!
That’s Rock [O’Bannon], I’m David. - Audience member, David Kemper, 24-Jul-2004
- We’ll give you Claudia’s phone number if you want it.
- David Kemper, 24-Jul-2004
- Was that something about emotionally weird bicycle riding?
- Ben Browder, 24-Jul-2004
- That was a lovely first date; thank you very much.
- Claudia Black, 24-Jul-2004
- Rygel’s gonna have a pisser of a career outside of Farscape.
Isn’t he doing Richard III?
No, he was too expensive. - Brian Henson, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, 24-Jul-2004
- You’re asking if I’m wearing fishnet stockings . . . on the show, or now? (pulls up pantleg)
- Ben Browder, 24-Jul-2004
- You guys probably don’t know this, but we have obsessive fans.
- David Kemper, 24-Jul-2004
- That’s a good ad campaign for you, Thomas [Vitale]. “Farscape. It’s different from the waist down.”
- Ben Browder, 24-Jul-2004
- Let’s just say [of frell] that it’s a word that starts with F, ends with U-C-K and it’s not “fire truck.”
- Claudia Black, 24-Jul-2004
Firefly/Serenity
Sunday afternoon preview and Q&A with Joss Whedon and the entire Firefly cast. (See also our write-up of the Serenity preview and quotes from the 2005 Serenity panel at Comic Con.)
- And I think you actors should take note of . . . that I’m really important.
- Joss Whedon, 25-Jul-2004
- We call Adam [Baldwin] “Stinkypants Mulligan.”
- Nathan Fillion, 25-Jul-2004
- Unfortunately they just call me “whore.”
That’s not true. We call her “stupid.” - Morena Baccarin, Alan Tudyk, 25-Jul-2004
- . . . I was wondering, could you tell us something about the plot of the movie?
Have you met me?!
Well, I live outside your house . . . - Audience member, Joss Whedon, 25-Jul-2004
- I’m not gonna finish Serenity . . . I’m just gonna live there.
- Nathan Fillion, 25-Jul-2004
- Summer [Glau] and I were thinking about going on the road and doing a circus act called “The Flying Tams.”
- Sean Maher, 25-Jul-2004
- Thank God for Spandex. Can we talk about Spandex?
- Gina Torres, 25-Jul-2004
- . . . I’ve seen some of my scripts being ruined, but this is the first one I’ve ruined myself.
- Joss Whedon, 25-Jul-2004