Ira Glass Quotes

You can't be a superhero or super mom.

I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers.

The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.

Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Magneto is classically known for being, like, a caricature of a supervillain who gives a lot of speeches, likes to fly up, teach people a lesson, make society look at themselves.

I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.

I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

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.

I am not walking around looking like Luke Cage does at all.

I didn't really know of 'Black Lightning' until I got the script and started to investigate - it wasn't a hero that I grew up with. So I didn't know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his - that whether he has the suit or not, he has them.

The mutants I like - Wolverine. The action heroes I like, they have weapons; they are more visceral. So I filled the comic with characters like that, and we got big results.

'X-Men' or 'Avengers!' I want to be a mutant or an Avenger.

Marvel is at its best when we see how an ordinary person has something extraordinary happen to them - whether it's Tony Stark or Bruce Banner or Peter Parker.

Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman

My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman.

I would love to be a superhero.

I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.

I really wish I were a superhero.

My favorite interview question is, 'If you could have a superpower, what would it be?'

If I had a super power, I'd want to be able to fly just so I could float around my apartment. Or I'd really like telekinesis because then you'd be able to slam the door on somebody.

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.