Ray Park Quotes

When I'm doing the Justice League stuff, my point of view is always coming through Buddy. And he's a dad, and there's stuff about his life that I relate to with my life, and I can also take the abilities of animals, which a lot of people don't know about me.

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.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.

I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.

I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.

I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.

When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.

I read some Marvel, but I was more of a DC guy. Particularly the Flash, Barry Allen. I latched on to him because I felt like him. You thought to yourself, 'Well, you can't really be Superman.' You couldn't really be Batman - Batman was a really dark figure. I identified with Barry Allen's hopefulness.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

I didn't care if it was 'Daredevil' or 'Captain America,' I was a fan of all of it. It was just a part of my growing up.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

I grew up reading comics - mostly Marvel - Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as an adult. It's the only comic book movie property I've ever gone after. I felt uniquely suited to it.

I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.