Top 70 Mark Millar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.”

— Mark Millar

2. “When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.”

— Mark Millar

3. “If you want to build a high performance organization, you’ve got to play chess, not checkers.”

— Mark Millar

4. “Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.”

— Mark Millar

5. “The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders – not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.”

— Mark Millar

6. “Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.”

— Mark Millar

7. “Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.”

— Mark Millar

8. “We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.”

— Mark Millar

9. “The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.”

— Mark Millar

10. “Guess that’s thirty-one pieces of silver you’ve got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.”

— Mark Millar

11. “If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.”

— Mark Millar

12. “The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don’t live there now. I am cutting myself free.”

— Mark Millar

13. “The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.”

— Mark Millar

14. “She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.”

— Mark Millar

15. “I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.”

— Mark Millar

16. “I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.”

— Mark Millar

17. “All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.”

— Mark Millar

18. “First, believe in your ability to create the future. That’s what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.”

— Mark Millar

19. “Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. “Hey, we should do something together.””

— Mark Millar

20. “The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.”

— Mark Millar

21. “El pasado duele solo si dejamos que nos alcance.”

— Mark Millar

22. “What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It’s a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there’s quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I’ve picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.”

— Mark Millar

23. “Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?”

— Mark Millar

24. “Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I’m an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.”

— Mark Millar

25. “You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.”

— Mark Millar

26. “I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic book movies and television shows, you’d think at least one eccentric loner would have stitched himself a costume.”

— Mark Millar

27. “If you don’t demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.”

— Mark Millar

28. “When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.”

— Mark Millar

29. “The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I’d devised.”

— Mark Millar

30. “I didn’t break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.”

— Mark Millar

31. “Receptionist also added super-breath when I offered her twenty bucks.”

— Mark Millar

32. “Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they’re living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.”

— Mark Millar

33. “Leaders don’t ever “arrive.” If we ever think we’re done, we are done!”

— Mark Millar

34. “Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.”

— Mark Millar

35. “I don’t see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there’s a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.”

— Mark Millar

36. “Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.”

— Mark Millar

37. “Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I’ve just found all of my ideas I’ve been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.”

— Mark Millar

38. “At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.”

— Mark Millar

39. “The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don’t go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who’s been in this situation before, and I think that’s what makes it work.”

— Mark Millar

40. “I’m just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now...”

— Mark Millar

41. “I tried my best to fight oppression, but America’s at her happiest ruled by liars.”

— Mark Millar

42. “I’ve done so many superhero comics, and I’ve actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.”

— Mark Millar

43. “I’m a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.”

— Mark Millar

44. “It’s been a very interesting exercise as a writer – writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It’s been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.”

— Mark Millar

45. “Like most people my age, I merely existed.”

— Mark Millar

46. “I didn’t want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.”

— Mark Millar

47. “I was desperate to work with Stuart Immonen, who I have talked with for several years about doing a project together. So just the stars aligned. I knew that Stuart had a little break in his schedule, where he would be willing to do a project with me. So this year I’ve been very lucky.”

— Mark Millar

48. “I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.”

— Mark Millar

49. “For years I’ve wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts “Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen” is an absolute pleasure.”

— Mark Millar

50. “Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.”

— Mark Millar