Hero Quotes

I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we finally find out who shot Bambi's mother.

I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

I would definitely like to be a slightly aging action hero with a smart mouth and have a little bit of fun.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

My heroes used to be cowboys.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream