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

— Lucy Liu

#appreciate #hopefully #i #i think #just

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

#cool #hal #her #hero #jordan

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

#focus #greatest #greatest strength #greatest weakness #green

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

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

— Famke Janssen

#because #been #female #men #ready

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

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

— Fisher Stevens

#i #lucky #really #superhero

Well," Mr. Cheeseman interjected. "Perhaps there's an easy solution to this. Maybe Captain Fabulous has an alter ego." "What's an alter ego?" asked Gerard. "It's a superhero's true but secret identity," said Chip. "You know, the way that Superman is really Clark Kent." "Superman is really Clark Kent?" "It's pretty obvious," said Penny. "To everyone but you and Lois Lane." "Okay," Gerard conceded. "Captain Fabulous's alter ego will be...Teddy Roosevelt. ↗

— Cuthbert Soup

#clark-kent #funny #lois-lane #names #superhero

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics