Hero Quotes

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

Haters, I'm not your enemy I'm your hero. Cheer up, you should be happy I'm here

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.