Superhero Quotes - Page 17

• I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Ideas, Numbers

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• Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Fun

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• You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Care, Way, Problem

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Thinking, Idols, People

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.90, Random House

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• We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.

  Grant Morrison

  Responsibility, Hopeful, Might

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• Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!

  Stan Lee

  New York, Giving, Break

  "The Avengers", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• 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

  Police, Vision, Rays

  "Superhero Bias" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. December 1, 2007.

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• As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Running, Jobs, Kids

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• That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

  Patricia Briggs

  Taken, Names, Sound

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.112, Penguin

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• Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Three, Seconds, Hard

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• I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

  Aisha Tyler

  Movie, Believe, Fantastic

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• Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dark, Games, Knights

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

  Judy Blume

  Hate, People, Focus

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

  Lucy Liu

  Thinking, Appreciate, Hopefully

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• Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Capes, Superwoman, Super Woman

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2011

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• We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

  Hank Green

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Working Together

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• I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Women, Heart

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.141, Penguin

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• Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Taken, Greek

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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