Hero Quotes

The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.

Don't try to be a hero. Try to be a winner.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match...so...I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.