Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes & Sayings

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

'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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

These shoes are Mr Silly's shoes, Scott. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

She's his kid sister, but ... I guess it's like she got sucked into this alternate dimension when she was little? And this demon guy taught her all this black magic and, like, twisted her soul. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Every time you look up at the stars, it's like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you're the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you're eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you're eleven again, you're sixteen again. You're in a rowboat. You're staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it's like nothing ever stops happening. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

bread makes you fat?? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

Alright, go away. I have a tiny world to save. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Stephen ... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

'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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

You stole him with your advanced American slut technology! You're not nice! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm just confused. Everything's confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It's like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you're standing looks like dirt with hair. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

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". — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'll love you forever. And I have dipping sauce for you! I'll be your dipping sauce bitch! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Those two make my mouth taste like throw up. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Kim: Hey ... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword.
Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along ... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck.
... I never wanted to get stuck — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

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

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Don't listen to her, Scott. She notices things. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?"
Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim."
Kim: "You're one of everyone. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too ... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.' — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Let's be friends based on mutual hate. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Fuck you fucks and the fucks you fucked in on! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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!! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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 — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Are we letting her drink beer again?"
"Hell yes we are, and it's hilarious. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I am leaning back and running with it and staring at the stars and I'm eleven, I'm sixteen, I'm eighteen, I'm a newborn I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing. — Bryan Lee O'Malley