“- Joe Wenteworth: Your son is not a screw up, he's a hero.
- Mr. Birch: What?
- Joe Wenteworth: I said he's a hero. And you don't deserve him. I want you to know that.”
Joseph Mazzello - Joe Wenteworth
Peter MacNeill - Mr. Birch

“- The Shoveller: Lucille, God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well.
- Lucille: Honey, you shovel better than any man I've ever known, but that does not make you a superhero. Listen to me. You're a good husband, and a good father. But that's all. Nothing more.”
William H. Macy - Shoveler
Jenifer Lewis - Lucille

“- Madeline Drake: This is all my fault.
- Pyro: Actually they discovered that it's the male who carries the mutant gene and passes it on, so it's his fault.”
Jill Teed - Madeline Drake
Aaron Stanford - Pyro

“Manny thinks his dad is like Superman. The truth? He’s a total flake. In fact, the only way he’s like Superman… is that they both landed in this country illegally.”
Ed O'Neill - Jay Pritchett

“I had hoped to become a hero. But in St. Cloud's there was no such position. In the lonely, sordid world of lost children, there were no heroes to be found. And so I became the caretaker of many, father of none.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch