Top 100 Quotes About Superman
#1. I have news for you, there is no Superman (it's up to us.)
Tom Mboya
#2. I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.
Lou Ferrigno
#3. I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.
Guy Fieri
#4. I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.
Mark Millar
#5. Clark Kent doesn't want to be famous. He doesn't want people to look at him. If they really look at him, they'd see that he's just Superman with glasses.
Rainbow Rowell
#6. I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
Kevin Spacey
#7. You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Why is monotheistic faith better than polytheistic? I mean, either you believe - if you believe in, like, a magic person who can do magic things, why is it different - so different if it's Superman or the Fantastic Four?
Bill Maher
#9. No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Israel Zangwill
#10. About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine
#11. Superman is such an old character. He's an old character with this huge legacy behind him. And one of the awesome things about the fact that he's been around for these decades is that he's gone through these different phases.
Gene Luen Yang
#12. George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.
Keith Thibodeaux
#13. I don't want to play a superhero. Drogo may not be Superman, but it is a phenomenal role. I didn't want to get typecast. Drogo is an exceptional character. Conan is iconic. Whether it does good or not, you just try to elevate it to the next level.
Jason Momoa
#14. I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.
Richard Donner
#15. As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
Orlando Bloom
#16. If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.
Pope Francis
#17. In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.
Joe Shuster
#18. There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
Jodi Picoult
#20. Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.
Gene Luen Yang
#21. She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman.
Liane Moriarty
#22. 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
#23. I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'
Zack Snyder
#24. Maybe she'll let me start wearing my Superman boxers again.
Ruth Cardello
#25. Draw a woman who's as powerful as Superman, as sexy as Miss Fury, as scantily clad as Sheena the jungle queen, and as patriotic as Captain America.
Jill Lepore
#26. 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
#27. Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#28. It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.
Scott McClellan
#29. I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
Michael Chabon
#30. 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
#31. I loved the movies and I loved cartoon superheroes - superheroes in general. I had all the pajama costumes and I would wear my underwear on the outside of the pajamas because that's what Superman does.
Dane DeHaan
#32. When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.
Jensen Ackles
#33. How was it they had cut to Hollywood Boulevard for a fluff piece and ended up with Gangs of New-Fucking-York?! Bonnie looked to her co-Anchor. He was wearing a good mouth for cooling soup.
David Louden
#34. It's much easier to make a Superman or Batman film than a Green Lantern film.
Martin Campbell
#35. The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman
#36. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#37. Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.
Frank Miller
#38. Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive ...
Henry Cavill
#39. I have consumed so many Weisinger-era Superman comics that they ooze back out through my pores!
Chris Roberson
#40. Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves ... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!
Max Landis
#41. I am out in public and using the phone. I am in a phone booth, got the phone in my hand and a man taps on the glass and says You using the phone? Nope, I'm superman, i am just looking for my costume. Here's your sign!
Bill Engvall
#42. 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
#43. I will teach men the meaning of their existence: the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud- man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. Let's not get started on their uniforms. Superman's stretchy spandex has nothing on Batman's sculpted pecs."
He glared at her. "You cannot bring fashion sense into a superhero discussion!"
"If they wear it, it's fair game." She folded her arms on the table.
Alisha Rai
#45. And the spirit of Superman is great to have around.
Brandon Routh
#46. I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.
Jaime Camil
#47. My absolute favorite growing up was 'Super Friends.' The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.
Michael Ian Black
#48. I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
Bryan Singer
#49. Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.
Rhys Ifans
#50. I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn't do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.
Douglas Coupland
#51. So are you saying I'm your Superman?"
--- Josh Copeland
Dawn Chartier
#52. I know, who doesn't want to play a superhero, right? And everyone wants to play Superman or Batman. Everyone wants to play a superhero.
Justin Hartley
#53. I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.
Adrian Peterson
#54. I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.
David S.Goyer
#55. So many sit around, waiting for superman, when in fact, Wonder Woman lies within.
Kristina Canady
#56. I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.
Matt Bomer
#57. I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.
Stephen Amell
#58. 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
#59. Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.
Jim Croce
#60. My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.
John Prescott
#61. You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.
Zack Snyder
#62. One way or another we're taking your bank. All you have to do is decide the level of persuasion we need to apply.
David Louden
#63. If i fall your catching me" Piper said as she grabbed Jasons arm
"Uh ... sure" Jason hoped he wasn't blushing
Leo stepped out next "Your catching me too superman, but i ain't holding your hand"
- The Lost Hero, Aeolus place
Rick Riordan
#65. You don't need a Superman to save the world
A GoodMan can do the job too...
Try once... Be one
Subhasis Das
#66. A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Jackie Chan
#67. When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.
Pauley Perrette
#68. What's the difference between man and Superman? Man wears underwear under the trouser and superman wears it over the trouser. ***
Various
#69. And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.
Jerry Seinfeld
#70. 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
#71. It turns out Superman is weak to Kryptonite and horses.
Zach Braff
#72. When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
Mac Miller
#73. When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.
Jeremy Sisto
#74. Jesus was no cold Superman - he was more human than any of us. Entirely pure, unweakened by evil, he was loving and open to the core. His ardor, truth, sensitivity, power, capacity for joy and pain were unlimited, and everything that happened to him happened in the immeasurableness of his divinity.
Romano Guardini
#75. If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.
Christian Finnegan
#76. Superman never said, 'I think I'll let Batman take this one today'.
Erin Nicholas
#77. If I go crazy will you still call me superman? If i'm alive and well will you be there holding my hand?
3 Doors Down
#78. Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best.
Greg Rucka
#79. It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.
Doug Liman
#80. 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
#81. I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were made and I'm happy about that, but now the recent film and TV stuff have validated me, as if that makes any sense.
Joe R. Lansdale
#82. If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.
Graham Kendall
#83. We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.
Mark Millar
#84. A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman?
Cornelia Funke
#85. Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. He has also worked as a shop assistant, bicycle-repair mechanic, journalist, actor, eccentric dancer, and mail-order bride. He has never worked for MI5. Don't believe anyone who tel s you otherwise. He is, however, secretly Superman.
Simon R. Green
#88. It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
Dan Ariely
#89. Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.
Jason Behr
#90. Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.
Antje Traue
#91. Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
Phil Donahue
#92. The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.
Grant Morrison
#93. We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
Jerry Robinson
#94. Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
Betty Friedan
#95. The boulevard was awash with the curious and the shocked as wave after wave of tourist crashed into the unmoving masses of families who had just witnessed a brawl between The Incredible Hulk and SpongeBob Squarepants over territory, boundaries and the age old issue of ownership.
David Louden
#96. There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...
Robert Mayer
#97. In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.
Matt Bomer
#99. I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
Stephen Daldry
#100. Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.
Gene Simmons
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