Hero Quotes

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter’s-patients.

Even the darkest of villans-can have a hero's heart.

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That just isn't very Heroic

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.

I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

Place bets on your dreams and be your own hero!

Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.