Superman Quotes

• A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Style
  • Powerful
  • Hurt

• I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

  

  Dave Barry
  • People
  • Life
  • King

• Expectations are high. Clearly I am not a superman. There is a little bit of euphoria in India. I have a wife and two kids.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Kids
  • High
  • Wife

• 'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?

  

  Charles Soule
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Deep

• People like Superman, The Flash - they just feel limited in who they are and what you can do with them because everyone knows who they are and what they do. Someone like Animal Man feels very open to interpretation.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • People
  • Animal
  • Superman

• What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Hero

• Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Want
  • Mom
  • Save

• The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Police

• Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Expectation

• The thing is, the Superman comics have been around a long time, and so have the movies. They've done a lot of Superman movies, as they have with Batman.

  

  Martin Campbell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • Cool
  • Batman
  • Superman

• That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Time
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Character

• I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I Love
  • Superman
  • Sacrifices

• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  

  David Liss
  • Justice
  • Weird
  • Batman

• Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • Character
  • Fly
  • Superman

• I did a movie with Christopher Reeve when I first came to L.A. called 'Switching Channels.' I asked him if it was weird to be Superman. He said, 'You know, George, I've fought against this whole Superman thing, but one day I realized, 'Hey, I'm Superman.'' So, at some point, I just started saying, 'Good for me, I'm Bryan MacKenzie.'

  

  George Newbern
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Weird

• 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

• I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Attention
  • Superman

• When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Job

• There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Soul

• I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a superman cape and pajamas, and I thought that was awesome - and some people didn't! But some people did, and it was an arts high school, so nobody made me feel bad about who I was.

  

  Aya Cash
  • People
  • School
  • Experience

• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  

  Bryan Singer
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Mind
  • Dad
  • Superman

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