Top 100 Quotes About Superman
#2. Nietzche ... he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
George Bernard Shaw
#3. I agreed with his thesis that God was not an all-powerful "cosmic superman" looking down from the penthouse as much as He was Love.
Dick Van Dyke
#4. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
Jon Favreau
#5. When you see somebody walking down the street wearing a Superman t-shirt, you just want to shoot them in the chest ... when they start to bleed go, I guess not
Dane Cook
#6. My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
Tao Okamoto
#7. We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
Zack Snyder
#8. I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it's hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.
David S.Goyer
#9. People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.
Frank Miller
#10. 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
#11. I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one ... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.
Matt Ryan
#12. He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.
Brian K. Vaughan
#15. On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.
Kevin Sorbo
#16. 'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation.
Tim Daly
#17. Life sucks when you find out Superman's a jerk.
Lisa Turner
#18. Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman.
Kathy Lette
#19. Superman or Green Lantern ain't got nothin' on me.
Donovan
#20. The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.
Lou Ferrigno
#21. What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.
Max Landis
#22. Nobody sounds like that! Mom, Aunt Nan, it won't work. No way is he ever, ever, ever going to blend in. And his ... you know ... his shoulders are all wide and he's all tan and looks Superman strong ... and ... "
"Anything else? Should I turn around?
Anne Eliot
#23. I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#24. She was the only one who could call me a dork and make me feel like Superman at the same time.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#25. 'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?
Charles Soule
#26. You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these established characters, and you start wondering who among us will be the one to create the next 'Superman' or 'Batman' or 'James Bond' or next 'Lone Ranger.'
Dave Gibbons
#27. We'll have Superman for President, let Robin save the day.
Jethro Tull
#28. Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.
Harry Shum Jr.
#29. What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.
David S.Goyer
#30. When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.
Jerry Seinfeld
#32. I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.
Zack Snyder
#33. Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.
Coolio
#34. I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman,
Henry Cavill
#35. Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
Christopher Nolan
#36. 'The Dark Knight,' 'The Rocketeer' and definitely the first 'Superman' movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what's a bad movie - I don't think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn't click for some reason.
Jim Lee
#37. Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.
Richard Donner
#38. She was a superhero. She was my hero. Therefore, moments when she allowed herself to display vulnerability were distressing. It was like watching Superman struggle through a bout of kryptonite exposure.
Penny Reid
#39. Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
Daniel Clowes
#40. I think the oldest comic I got when I was a kid was an issue of 'World's Finest' - it had a Neal Adams cover with Batman where he had turned into a bat, and he was attacking Superman.
Jason Aaron
#41. I am always a sucker for the underdogs. I love Batman and Superman, but when it comes to the guys who don't stand in the front of the line, Aquaman is one of the key guys for me. He's so much fun to work on.
Geoff Johns
#42. You like Superman?"
I shrugged, "He lacks the boyish charm of Spiderman, but he's alright."
"I'm like Superman."
I rolled my eyes. "This should be good. And who am I? Louis Lane?"
A solemn shake of his head, and then his hands were tangling in my hair. "You're kryptonite.
Adrianne Brooks
#43. Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
John Podhoretz
#44. The '80s were a much simpler time, mainly because the only superhero movie franchise anyone could complain about was Superman, and the Internet didn't exist so you couldn't even complain about it to too many people - just, like, your mom and maybe your imaginary friend or whatever
Brian Alan Ellis
#45. And when I die, put it on my stone. God said, Sucker get your bad ass home. I wasn't Superman. I wasn't Superman
Willie Nelson
#46. The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.
Karl Kraus
#47. Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
Geoffrey Rush
#48. People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.
Robert Griffin III
#49. Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'
Kathy Lette
#50. But I still had to tell myself, Keep looking up. I will tell you, he isnt Superman for nothing.
Erica Durance
#51. Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.
Shaquille O'Neal
#52. Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.
Jamie Foxx
#53. Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman" ... the last time you really inspired anyone
was when you were dead.
Geoff Johns
#54. John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
Junot Diaz
#55. When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
Jack Kirby
#56. I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
David Mamet
#57. Ethan: "You think I'm a hero?"
Beth: "Yes."
Ethan: "But lousy husband material?" Like that really mattered to him.
Beth: "Don't sweat it. So was Superman.
Lucy Monroe
#58. On the side of box of my superman costume it actually said - 'Do not attempt to fly!'
Jerry Seinfeld
#59. I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman.
Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#60. And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.
Tommy Lee
#62. I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
Evel Knievel
#63. I don't think of Superman as being angsty, though."
"That's the problem. Most people don't. But really he's pure angst. He has a Fortress of Solitude, you know? What do you think he does there, throw parties? No. He broods.
Ben Monopoli
#64. They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.
Margot Kidder
#65. I always loved Batman, the Michael Keaton 'Batman.' I loved those films, and Superman, but I was never a real comic book geek.
Matt Ryan
#66. When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.
Geoffrey Canada
#67. Superman, spider man, batman, all lost their parents in their childhood, they all had to live their lives against the conspiracy of villains, and even after these miseries they don't hesitate to save people or to forgive the villains, that's why they are superheroes.
Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury
#68. Have you ever felt like you were caught in a maze in which nothing made sense? In which you saw Superman and the Green Goblin in the same comic strip when they really belonged in two different stories?
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#69. I know why superman left krypton. Earth was the only place where he could get steriods!
Milton Berle
#70. I used to watch every episode of 'Justice League,' I went to all the movies, I had the Superman lunchbox. I was enamored with animation in general and always wanted to somehow be a part of it.
Jesse McCartney
#71. Why can't one live a life of disappearing?An invisible man- the real superman.
Aporva Kala
#72. As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
J. August Richards
#73. In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
Albert Camus
#74. Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
#75. Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.
Henry Cavill
#76. Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
Bruce Feiler
#77. I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.
Emmanuel Petit
#79. Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
Zack Snyder
#80. We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.
Wolfgang Petersen
#81. For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.
Brad Meltzer
#82. Ou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
Leonard Cohen
#83. I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. I think the character of Superman may be the greatest fictional creation of modern times, and working on the book is for me a sacred trust. I'm just doing my best not to disappoint!
Chris Roberson
#85. Flying was no cure for want of sleep. The brain wanted time to recycle: when it became all one long, uninterrupted day, the ability to keep going and to keep thinking was no warrant it was healty even for Superman.-Superman
C.J. Cherryh
#86. I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.
Clark Gregg
#87. A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.
Tom Wolfe
#88. 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
#89. I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.
Richard Donner
#90. Superman told me ... that we needed to make a double ... type of record ... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make ... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because ... Batman ... didn't want a double album'
Daron Malakian
#91. Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
William Tenn
#92. Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman
Rick Riordan
#93. After all, Fnick is Superman," said Iggy.
"Shut up, Jeff," I said, but I was smiling. I lifted Iggy's fingers to my face so that he knew.
James Patterson
#94. He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman.
H.L. Mencken
#95. Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.
Jim Lee
#96. What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
Robert Wade
#97. Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
Vladimir Lenin
#98. We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
Bobby Seale
#99. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.
Christopher Nolan
#100. Your gaydar can't leap over buildings in a single bound like Superman."
"He's wearing a thong. Enough said."
"It's for ease of movement."
"Thong," Lila repeated.
Nora Roberts
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