Quotes About Resilience

I would like to do an action film, and in which I am doing the action. I don't want to be a damsel in distress. I want to be a superhero. I would love to do that.

Iron Man is my favorite superhero.

I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I think superheroes are about flying. They're not about moping.

In a way, Captain America is the most grounded of the main Marvel superheroes. He is basically just a man, only more so. He doesn't fly across the sky like Iron Man. He isn't from another world like Thor. He doesn't turn into a green monster.

Superheroes are the best of us. Never mind all those powers or the crazy costumes. The heart of a superhero is meant to inspire.

I would want people to be their own superheroes, save their own days, know that nobody else is gonna do it for you. You have to pick yourself up out of your dark moment; you gotta be your own source of light, just like I was for me.

Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

After I play a gig, I'm like a different person: I have superhuman strength.

I don't get hangovers - it's some kind of superhuman ability.

Of course I'm not superhuman: I'm going to get tired; that's normal.

As women we're expected to be superhuman, especially black women.

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

America has this wonderful ability to recover from its own mistakes, which is why it's so hugely superior to China.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

Gay people are all like Superman. You have to be quite strong to be gay - or to be different in any way. You build special muscles.

There are two things I want to be able to know when I walk into a fight, or with anything in life. And I'm not Superman, I'm not even that great at fighting. Those two things are: I have done everything in my power to prepare for this and I will not quit, no matter what.

Superman has always been a battle for hope.

I don't think of myself as Superman, but if a genie came up to me now and granted me a wish to take my legs back, for sure I would take them - but it would take some time to accept.

For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.