“No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.”

They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.

There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.

Superhero roles seem to be popular. I’d like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I’d pay good money to see that.

My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.

When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

So, it’s cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it’s not that he’s super that is his focus; it’s that he’s a man. He’s very human. That’s his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

I love action-adventure-type films – mythical adventures like ‘Lord of the Rings’ or superhero films like ‘Batman.’