Brian Tee Quotes

Back in 1982, when there were still only a manageable number of 'X-Men' titles on the racks (by which I mean just one), Marvel quite reasonably figured the world could stand another team of beleaguered mutant superheroes. And so were born 'The New Mutants,' junior X-Men whose powers had just begun to manifest at the onset of puberty.

I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.

I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.

The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

I'm a fan of X-men.

Vernon Fenwick. He's a cameraman at Channel 6 - he's April O'Neil's cameraman - and Vernon is a character who is from the 'Turtle' mythology.

With 'Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I wanted to play a character who lives more in the real world, although yes, I grant you, he immediately encounters, um, turtles, of the teenage mutant ninja variety.

I love the fantasy genre, I'd love to be a member of the X-Men.

My favorite Christmas gift as a child was - I had a ninja turtle skateboard.

When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.

All of the 'X-Men' characters really intrigue me. Wolverine is my favorite character.

If you don't know, 'The New Mutants' is like an 'X-Men' spin-off. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and it was an 'X-Men' comic. It's basically like a separate bunch of mutants.

If you could access 90 percent of your brain, you'd be Charles Xavier.

I remember hearing the name... 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - what the hell is that?' But I was hit by the bug as well. I used to watch the cartoon every morning before I went to school, played the video game at the arcades, and was a big fan of the comics.

It's hella crazy being included in the music for the 'Ninja Turtles' movie.

Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human.

I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea.

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.

I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

The Ninja Turtles made me who I am today in a big way. It was my favorite show as a kid. It got me into meditation, martial arts, speed boarding, and generally like the positive person that I am today is because of the Turtles.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.