Heroes Quotes

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

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

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

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

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

The law has no power over heroes.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

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

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

I had both male and female heroes.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Our athletes are our heroes.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

My heroes were always soccer players.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

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

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.