Super Hero Quotes

• The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

  Ken Kesey

  Hero, Phones, Trouble

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• Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

  Max Landis

  Taken, Hero, Thinking

  "Watch: Max Landis Criticizes Carnage In ‘Man Of Steel,’ Compares Movie To ‘Transformers 3’ & ‘Avengers’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 25, 2013.

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• When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

  Virginia Madsen

  Growing Up, Hero, Males

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

  Tim Burton

  Running, Hero, Boys

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• I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going to go with the super hero thing and after that I'll wrap it up with some more sci-fi and then do a romantic comedy.' But it doesn't quite work out that way.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Nathon Fillion talks about playing Steve Trevor in “Wonder Woman”". The CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

  William Monahan

  Art, Hero, Mean

  "Exclusive: William Monahan Candidly Discusses THE GAMBLER, His Severe Bike Accident Earlier This Year, His Approach to Writing, MOJAVE, VENGEANCE, John Le Carre’s A DELICATE TRUTH, Television, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2014.

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• When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Hero, Home, Garden

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, Maple Syrup

  "Nathan Fillion Dishes on Being Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman". Movieweb Interview, www.movieweb.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

  Book, Reading, Hero

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa". Interview with Adam Hetrick, www.playbill.com. July 10, 2010.

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• There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Hip Hop, Emcee

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a squared jaw or pretty woman with big breasts, then kids start thinking that's how it's supposed to be. Part of the problem was that black comic book artists were making super heroes with the same pattern as the white super heroes. When you read a lot of those comics, the black super heroes don't seem to have anything to do.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Book, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super hero story to unfold at the same scale as something like Star Wars. Rythm Mastr is about producing a narrative of a hero engaged in a struggle as complicated as those other stories. The catalyst for it was the beginning of the demolition of public housing in Chicago.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Stars, War, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Moving, Hero, Glasses

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• When you're have known to do voice-overs for Justice League or Legion of Super Heroes or DC/Marvel, you're kind of on that radar. When you do a ton of Star Treks over your career, then you're kind of on that radar in a way. But that doesn't mean you're going to continue getting that type of work. It just means when you do that type of work, you're more firmly tied to that genre.

  Phil Morris

  Stars, Hero, Mean

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

  Eric Kripke

  Book, Hero, Geek

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.

  Xavier Gens

  Hero, Character, Thinking

  "‘Hitman’ Director Sets His Sights on Daredevil". Marvel Movies! Interview, screenrant.com. April 30, 2009.

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• I feel like I'm super hero diva and my power is glitter.

  Jujubee

  Hero, Glitter, Feels

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• My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.

  Scott Herman

  Motivation, Hero, Kids

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• When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc.

  Scott Herman

  Motivation, Hero, Feel Better

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• I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.

  Zack Snyder

  Hero, Waiting, World

  "COMIC-CON 2013: Batman and Superman Man of Steel 2 Logo Revealed! Team-Up Officially Announced!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 20, 2013.

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• I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

  Kelly Preston

  Hero, School, Son

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• Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

  Chester Brown

  Smart, Book, Hero

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• Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter’s-patients.

  J.R. Ward

  Hero, Men, Doors

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• Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.

  Richelle Mead

  Hero, Rose, Work Ethic

  Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead (2011). “Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide”, p.198, Penguin

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