David Dastmalchian Quotes

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.

I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

I still have my first 'Black Lightning' that I got way back in the day, and my first 'Steel.' And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.' It wasn't like I was collecting them.

My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

I always had a great history of comics. I've been buying them since I was six years old. I was a student of the craft.

I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.

One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but 'Doctor Who' is different. I've grown up with it. It's been part of my life since I was tiny, watching Jon Pertwee on a grainy black and white television in Cornwall and being terrified out of my mind.

Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

I have consumed so many Weisinger-era Superman comics that they ooze back out through my pores!

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.