Hero Quotes

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

Calculation never made a hero.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

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

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

Every veteran is a hero.

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

Always the heavy and never the hero - that's me.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

I am the hero of Africa.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.