Superman Quotes

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

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.

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

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.

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.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

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.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

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.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

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.

I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.

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.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

I read Superman comics when I was a kid.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

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.

I'm no superman.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.