Superhero Quotes

• When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Superhero

• Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Forever

• Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Opportunity
  • Kind
  • Childhood

• I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Trying
  • Superhero

• If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • School
  • Want
  • Actor

• I've had tragedy in my life, and it doesn't stop comedy, so I think it's important to do both. Particularly in a superhero movie, but in any movie that accesses all people. Nobody wants to be abused for two hours.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • America
  • War

• I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don't find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.

  

  Martin Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Hurt

• When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I'm not a superhero now. I'm not some sort of celebrity that doesn't have feelings. I'm very, very normal.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Girl
  • Celebrity

• I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.

  

  Jon Hamm
  • Gay
  • Superhero

• If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Jesus
  • Clouds

• I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.

  

  Liana Liberato
  • Great
  • Goals
  • Superhero

• I want to be a part of 'Avengers'; they can make me the Hulk! I want to do a superhero film.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Superhero

• My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

  

  John Hodgman
  • Writing
  • Superhero

• I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • Great
  • Done
  • Business

• For something to be profitable doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing in the world for the director. You judge a movie by different standards - I've worked on comedies, and now I've worked on superhero movies, and the reviews are almost parenthetical in both of those genres.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • World
  • Different
  • Movie

• Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.

  

  Jim Lee
  • People
  • Power
  • Action

• I think most superhero stories have already been done a million times.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Done
  • Superhero

• I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Great
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Great
  • Superhero

• Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • Time
  • Done
  • Science

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