#superhero

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

#after #crisis #draws #extraordinary #forth

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

#doing #feel #house #i #i feel

Being a superhero is a lot of fun. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#fun #lot #superhero

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

#comics #doing #experiences #grew #liked

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#kid #never #read #really #stuff

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

#bring #dreary #even #gotten #heroes

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

#batman #clearly #culture #does #else

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

#astounding #batman #birth #bottomless #christopher

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

— Robert Rodriguez

#another way #care #create #problems #really

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

— January Jones

#been #changed #could #i #name