My Hero Quotes

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

It's not just children who need heroes.

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

There are no heroes in a world where heroes can’t die.

"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is true. I am not saying this as a fashion of speech.

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.