“When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different and I felt like I did not belong. And now I'm standing here, and so I would like this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she's weird or she's different or she doesn't fit in anywhere. Yes, you do. I promise you do. Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage, please pass this same message to the next person who comes along.”
“The tone is 100% Kick-Ass in the sense that one minute you’ll be laughing and the next, I mean we’ve shot stuff where I think the press is going to kill me,” Vaughn confided in us. “We’ve got an action sequence in a church which is just going to cause a huge reaction. I might have a Christian fatwa on me. If you liked Kick-Ass you’re going to like this, it’s adventure, action, heart, comedy, it’s all in there. It’s fun. I’m convinced ‘The Avengers’ did so well because you had a laugh and I think people are having a miserable time at the moment and they want escapism. The only way I think we could compete with Bond and all these big franchises was to do really full on violent choreographed action, which they can’t do because they’re PG-13, so let’s do something people haven’t seen before. A spy movie where once it kicks off it really does kick off.”