“I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.” — George Best
“They prepared Superman for a year, and they had the guy flying on a flat board with four wires. What were the challenges? Endless.” — Richard Donner
“I know why Superman left Krypton. Earth was the only place he could get steroids!” — Milton Berle
“When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.” — Orlando Bloom
“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.” — David Bowie
“Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?” — Phil Donahue
“I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.” — Richard Donner
“It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?” — Richard Donner
“You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.” — Timothy Dalton
“Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.” — Richard Donner
“I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.” — Aaron Carter
“I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.” — Michael Chabon