Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.

My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"

There are things we can't change, and we just have to accept that. And maybe that's some kind of grace

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

Ramona V. Flowers: What kind of tea do you want?
Scott Pilgrim: There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'

I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!

We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?

Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

Stephen ... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive?

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

What kind of tea do you want?"
"There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?"
"Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey."
-"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?

Gilded palace of Flying Burritos
Excellent Nouveau Mexican Cuisine
We all got to wear Swank-Ass Nudie Suits
I should have known it was a lousy pipe dream
Ohhh, Ohhh, what an awesome job
Ohhh, Ohhh, what do I do now??
Ohh, Ohhhhh, it's like I've been robbed
Spent the last of my paycheque
And I'm feelin' pretty downnnnn!!

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.

I'll love you forever. And I have dipping sauce for you! I'll be your dipping sauce bitch!

Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up.
Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

She's their secret weapon! They call her Trasha, and she's eight years old. I hear they discovered her at the Pacific Mall arcade, playing Drum-Mania. She has so much A.D.D., it's not even funny.

Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.

Maybe all these desperate clashing feelings I'm feeling are just random brain activity, maybe I'm just delusional. But there are things that I miss, and things that I feel like I should be seeing and feeling every time I turn around, and I just keep turning and turning and turning, and there's nothing.

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

Hey, amazon.ca, that's the online bookstore or whatever, right?
-Yep
-What's the website for that?

Are we letting her drink beer again?"
"Hell yes we are, and it's hilarious.

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.

These shoes are Mr Silly's shoes, Scott.

Can we go out sometime? Or, I mean, I mean ... Can we maybe just hang out? Can we get to know each other? You're new in town, right? I've lived here forever
I mean
I mean ... there are ... reasons ... for you to hang out with me?

Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?'
Uh ... you know. Pretty good.'
Have you said the L-Word yet?'
The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?'
Uh ... No. The other L-Word.'
?'
Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.

(door slams open at 2:30am)
"Guess who's DRUAAAHUUUNK!" said Wilson.
"I guess Wilson, now get out," moaned Scott

Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.

Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. Because you'll be dust on Monday. Because I'll be pulverizing you sometime over the weekend. And the cleaning lady ... cleans up ... dust. She dusts. And she has weekends off, so ... Monday. Right?

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up.
Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Don't listen to her, Scott. She notices things.

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

I've had a weird couple of weeks, you know?"
"I completely know".
"But I- I mean, I'm not totally happy, but there's no way I'd go back to my old obvious self! I like it here. I like all the ... confusion and heartbreak".
"It wasn't that bad ... was it?"
"Scott ... yes, it was. But I feel like I've learned some stuff along the way. I know things now".

bread makes you fat??

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

Those two make my mouth taste like throw up.

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.

Fuck you fucks and the fucks you fucked in on!

What happened after my best friend left is that I couldn't make friends anymore, or I could make them but I couldn't enjoy them, I couldn't relate to them.

I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

Obviously one of us went to Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and one of us didn't."
"Obviously one of is a total nerd.