Superhero Quotes

• After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Power
  • Political
  • Identity

• Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

  

  David Dastmalchian
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Superhero

• I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Why
  • Light
  • Dad

• The biggest thing about being a wrestler and being Goldberg gave me, was the ability to be a superhero for kids. I want the ability to be that guy again.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Superhero

• YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There's not one ideal image of what a superhero looks like, and you don't really see that until the end of the film.

  

  Ellen Wong
  • Cool
  • Superhero

• What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • Great
  • Together
  • Superhero

• I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

  

  Christa B. Allen
  • Superhero
  • Princess

• At my age, I'm not trying to score cool points. I'm just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I'm not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don't mind it.

  

  John Cena
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Kids

• When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Book
  • History
  • Superhero

• 'Hawkeye' is much more intimate than any of the superhero works I've done before.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Done
  • Superhero

• 'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Character
  • Game
  • Green

• I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

  

  Lucy Liu
  • Superhero

• Studios might not be able to figure out my leanings, but anyone who visits my blog or reads my Twitter feed or meets me in person will realize right away that I am a huge superhero fan and a fanatic about Superman in particular.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Superhero
  • Superman

• Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Superhero

• Beowulf is not a superhero. He has a talent, very much like Clint Eastwood in 'Unforgiven.' He's very good at staying calm in the right moment, but he does bad things. It's very much about having talent in a tight spot.

  

  Kieran Bew
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Calm

• I have to also get into producing if I want to see these stories being made... Let's venture out and do projects with people of different ethnicities: not just black but also Asian actors and Asian superhero films. Just an equality across the board.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • People
  • Different
  • Black

• So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.

  

  Ellen Wong
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I always wanted to be a superhero.

  

  Charles Michael Davis
  • Superhero

• I've always wrote off the demographic of superhero films because it's just not really something I can relate to.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Superhero

• Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Dad
  • Superhero

• 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Story
  • Politically
  • Watchmen

• What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Interesting

• To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what's happening in government... this is a real life superhero right here.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Life
  • Real
  • Truth

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