Austin Grossman Quotes

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

I think I'd make a great superhero. I'm serious. I want to play a superhero, and I've already got one in mind. I think I've still got the body for the costume, and it's something I really want to do.

I did want to play a superhero. I mean, who doesn't when you're a kid? I would have loved to be a superhero. But as I'd gotten older, I wasn't ready to jump into tights and put the cape on. I was hoping to play something a little more grounded and realistic.

Nobody beats Superman. Everybody else needs a costume - Superman needs a costume to be normal.

And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

I never play without my cape.

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

People like Superman, The Flash - they just feel limited in who they are and what you can do with them because everyone knows who they are and what they do. Someone like Animal Man feels very open to interpretation.

When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean?

I think a superhero would be awesome to play.

I've always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!

Before I found out you couldn't get bitten by a radioactive spider and shoot webs out of your wrist, I wanted to be a superhero when I grew up - until I was, like, 8.

I want to create a superhero... which everyone will say that we have a superhero called 'A Flying Jatt'.

I really wish I were a superhero.