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I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader. -- Geoffrey Rush
It's much easier to make a Superman or Batman film than a Green Lantern film. -- Martin Campbell
The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear. -- Geoff Johns
My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.' -- Ryan Reynolds
Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it. -- Ryan Reynolds
When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all. -- Jim Lee
Flashpoint' is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how we've done with Green Lantern. It's important that the Flash can hold his own. -- Geoff Johns
I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun. -- Matthew Settle
Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me. -- Geoffrey Rush
The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial. -- Geoff Johns
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. -- Blake Lively
I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of stories you can tell is pretty endless with space and everything. -- Geoff Johns
As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11 happened, and then two years later, I was writing about fear. It was obviously connected. -- Geoff Johns
There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends. -- Geoff Johns
I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale. -- Kurt Busiek
Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of the corps concept of overcoming fear, I felt Simon was a great character to explore, while getting a different viewpoint on things. -- Geoff Johns
When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people. -- Ryan Reynolds
I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness. -- Geoff Johns
So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight. -- Andrew Kreisberg
You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern. -- Rumi
Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head. -- David Letterman
'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it. -- Ryan Reynolds
I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care. -- Marc Guggenheim
I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things. -- Paul Laffoley
I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories. -- Marc Guggenheim
The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit. -- Marc Guggenheim
I've been using easy-to-understand DC Comics-surrogates to describe him: imagine if Darkseid's son, Orion, joined the Green Lantern Corps to train them to stop Darkseid. That's essentially what Victory is doing in the Galactic Rangers. -- Sterling Gates
I noticed while working on Green Lantern that the actor - albeit forefront in the film, obviously, and the key focus for the audience - is kind of the smallest cog in the machine when you're shooting. -- Ryan Reynolds
I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men. -- Mark Millar
To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him. -- Jeff Lemire
I'm one of the most fortunate guys around,I still get to do those kinds of movies, and then I get to do Green Lantern, and I get to do Buried with an auteur like Rodrigo CortÃ©s. I enjoy that I can get away with that. -- Ryan Reynolds
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. -- Isabel Yosito
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. -- Dan Millman
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. -- William Butler Yeats
Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result. -- Alan Siegel
I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology. -- Geoff Johns
It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with. -- Ryan Reynolds
I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire? -- Anita Shreve
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light. -- Samuel Johnson
Moon is the light from a lantern in heaven -- Munia Khan
In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color -- Yosa Buson
My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth -- Thom Yorke
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight. -- Rachel Field
A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons. -- Wallace Stevens
I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take. -- Nahoko Uehashi
Light is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook -- Nizar Qabbani
God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. -- William Shakespeare
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way -- Nichiren
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You must have come from very far down," Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern. -- Ramona Ausubel
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. -- Muhammad Naguib
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. -- Thomas Hardy
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain. -- Walter Raleigh
I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities. -- John Ashbery
I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet. -- Sergio Leone
Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. -- James Broughton
Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars. -- Hans BÃ¸rli
Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars. -- Hans BÃ¸rli
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America. -- Richard Brautigan
He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face. -- Cassandra Clare

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