My Hero Quotes

I think Michael Moore is a hero. I love him.

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

Im pretty sure that everybodys hero is Gannicus

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

The hero is never the star of the story.

Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

A dreamer born is a hero bred.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

A coward can be a hero, but a hero cannot be a coward.

No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!

Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of love, every kind of work.

You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.