Superhero Quotes: Inspiration from Legendary Heroes

"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"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, Actor

"If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"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, Actor

"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper"

January Jones, Actress

"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, Actress

"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness"

Blake Lively, Actress

"I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"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, Actor

"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"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, Actor

"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality"

Michael Fassbender, Actor

"No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"I never really read superhero stuff as a kid"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do"

Thuy Trang, Actress

"One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories"

Bill Williams, Celebrity

"I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles"

Frank Miller, Artist

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

Lucy Liu, Actress

"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, Writer

"I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers"

Robert Englund, Actor

"I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle"

Timothy Dalton, Actor

"There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero"

Michael Fassbender, Actor

"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, Artist

"We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them"

Famke Janssen, Actress

"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, Actress

"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, Director