Hero Quotes

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.

I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

Mugged by my own mother.

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around." I feel so wanted. Thanks.

The gods need heroes. They always have.

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

For me, my dad is the best hero in the universe.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.