In this post, you will find great Hero Quotes from famous people, such as Gene Luen Yang, George Foreman, Alex Spanos, Danny K. Davis, Amit Bhatia. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.
In India, it’s hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything – including power and money – and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He’s a role model of selflessness.
When you’re a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.
Ian Rankin’s Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.
Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in ‘One Amazing Thing,’ all the characters tell stories they’ve never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.
Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.
I love when I get compliments on my shirts all the time. I’m a t-shirt guy, and I think nine times out of 10, they have some kind of super hero character on them.
If you’re an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don’t fit in, if you’re not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He’s my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He’s one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?
Calculation never made a hero.
Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it.
We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there’s no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.
Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I’m in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I’m a hero.
When I was young, ‘Scarface’ was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
The hero of a mainstream stand-alone novel can get by with things the hero of a sweet traditional category romance wouldn’t dream of doing.
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.
You’re a hero one day, you’re a villain another day. They say that’s football. When a manager does well, they’re applauded, when they don’t do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it – for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.
No hero is mortal till he dies.
Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there’s something really empathetic about him.
My hero is Roger Federer.
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
I’m not a hero. The military is.
Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
I haven‘t been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of ‘Big Hero’s’ success. I’m just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that’s come after that has been secondary to the initial response.
No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
‘Frida’ was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn’t wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
It’s easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company – and it’s very difficult to do – the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process.
The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.
‘The Wall’ is a reaction to ‘Edge of Tomorrow,’ where I was like, ‘I don’t need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.’ And that was ‘The Wall.’
It’s just a great, legendary comic book hero and it’s one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it’s a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it’s time to do that with Wonder Woman.
Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don’t believe it, ask your mom!
Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King’s dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra.’ He gets a bad rap; he’s very misunderstood. He’s a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
‘Babel‘ is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.
The idea of romantic heroes – When you say the word hero,’ it implies it’s someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton’ about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?
Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he’s fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that’s what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.
In most shows, there’s usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy.
I mean, I’m not going to play the hero of something.
Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?
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.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
If you want to be a hero, you’ve got to take hero shots.
In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they’ll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.
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.
I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions – a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con – and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he’s been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the ‘Wimpy Kid’ and ‘Captain Underpants’ worlds together!
Every character needs an adversary – one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they’re contrasting.
Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
You know, we’re each the hero of our own story and we perceive what’s going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, ‘Well, this is my story, and I’m the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.’
Comics shouldn’t be ‘tools‘ for anyone’s agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun… but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn’t honorable, who didn’t protect those who couldn’t protect themselves, who didn’t value children and pets, who wasn’t independent and unselfish.
Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.
A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it’s those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor’s interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.
I thought, ‘Oh, this is great,’ because maybe someone who does look like me will watch ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He’s an amazing man. That’s one person I’m looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he’s my hero.
My father was absent and he was a hero to me.
In feature films, I used to be the hero’s friend, a regular character. In short films, I played the hero; I got roles where I could work on my character and performance. They made me aware of myself as an actor.
Our country, if you read the ‘Federalist Papers,’ is about disagreement. It’s about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob – not the mob itself.
You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero, so we need to bring out that side, but I think every human being is complex, and complex is so beautiful. And that’s where the energy of the character is.
Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same.
Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, ‘superhero,’ whereas I’m kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren’t all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.
God is a hero.
Everyone thinks they’re the hero in their own story.
I have always been against the gangster as hero.
I’m just getting back into my songwriting groove. It’s still pretty early. But I don’t want to make ‘Hero 2.’ It’s going to be different.
I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever.
Most boys’ first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.
I’ve written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city’s Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.
One minute you’re a slug and the next minute you’re a hero, so you don’t know what to think.
In ‘Seven Ancient Wonders,’ Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I’m not going to preach to people and say, ‘Guantanamo Bay, bad’, but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.
It’s always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.
From a gameplay standpoint, I’ve said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that’s really what I’m interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
If I had to describe myself, I wouldn’t use words like ‘hero.’ I wouldn’t use ‘patriot,’ and I wouldn’t use ‘traitor.’ I’d say I’m an American and I’m a citizen, just like everyone else.
Someone who’s a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia – the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?
In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn’t much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don’t think I’d be very good at playing one.
What is a hero without love for mankind.
My Dad is my hero.
A lot of actors would tell you that they’d rather play the villain than the hero. When you’re the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people – and I think that it’s always quite satisfying to do that.
In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams – really a top, top artist that the ‘New Yorker‘ was lucky to find and employ.
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
We need to redefine what a hero looks like.
If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.
I like to say I’m not a hero.
I don’t want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I’d rather settle for people thinking that I’m a bum, but digging my stories, than liking me and not being able to believe in my stories. That’s one reason I’ve been hard on myself, because I want my stuff to be believable.
HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
I believe in content. Just looking pretty next to the hero gives me no joy. I believe I have more to offer than that.
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
I can’t explain it, but from the first day I stepped into a wrestling ring, I knew that one day I was going to be a big superstar. I knew that one day I would be the NWA World Heavyweight Champion like my hero, Lou Thesz.
I don’t see a full-fledged career in Hollywood. I am happy with the cameos. Even Tom Cruise will only do special appearances in our films; he wouldn’t do a full hero movie. But it’s good to act in different cinema.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.
‘The Notebook‘ was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.
I’m not your traditional action hero.
I got to work for my hero and travel with him on a regular basis. It doesn’t get much better than that for a job.
History will decide if I’m a villain or a hero.
Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She’s been working for the rights of women for a long time.
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.
Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.
I chose to write the kind of romance I love best – one with a sheikh hero.
I’ve heard people tell me there’s never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it’s very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
In television, to be a hero and look like I look, that really stuck with me.
I’m immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we’re all heroes of our own lives.
Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to ‘Godzilla‘ just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner.
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.
Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in ‘Casablanca.’ Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.
I don’t think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.
It really doesn’t matter whether it’s the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don’t know what he is until the end.
Kurosawa is my hero, and I’ve taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and ‘Rashomon’ is, I think, his second greatest film after ‘Ikiru.’
I certainly don’t think of myself as an action hero.
I don’t want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.
There’s exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing – unless you’re going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you’re an action hero.
It’s time for a trans hero in a mainstream comic.
‘Greatest American Hero,’ I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn’t know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.
Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return.
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
I don’t believe in hero worship.
General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.
You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that there’s no such thing as evil; it’s all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he’s a hero.
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.
The hero of the ‘Peanuts‘ is Charlie Brown. I play the dog that sleeps on the top of his dog box who’s a philosopher. I’m drawn to that. So I’m drawn to Barbossa as I’m drawn to Einstein, because they are outsiders, and I suppose, as a character actor, that’s the turf that you’re locked into, in a way.
Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn’t be at the front shouting about it. He’d be the one you don’t expect.
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
You realise that there’s nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?
‘Wii Music’ elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is – as ‘Rock Band‘ and ‘Guitar Hero’ do – to suggesting what it could be. Yet I’m still left wondering: Couldn’t it be more?
Some people are cowards… I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they’ve got to make that choice.
Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.
I am a Bruce Lee fan. I may be my fans’ hero, but even heroes have their heroes. And mine is Bruce Lee.
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Walt Disney was my great hero.
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.
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Where there is a hero, there is always a villain.
I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner – that was my goal. He was my hero.
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I’m just a common Korean woman.
J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston‘s newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.
Every generation of children has its private hero.
It’s really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he’s the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don’t like it.
I’m not cut out to play a filmi hero. I don’t look like a hero.
My mother is my hero.
We’d love to see Led Zeppelin on ‘Guitar Hero.’
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.
Allen Iverson is, like, my all-time hero.
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.
Since ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains – I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
I definitely like performing to a crowd that’s there to see a female hero.
All I care about is providing and living every day. I don’t care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.
If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.
Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Jekyll & Hyde,’ the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that’s explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.
I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero’s responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.
I’m my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
I have always been against the gangster as hero.
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
I think it’s irresponsible when celebrities imply they’re doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He’s really full-on. I couldn’t do it any other way.
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn’t looking at the hero, they’re looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
We’ve become slaves to words like ‘local,’ ‘fresh,’ and ‘seasonal.’ We all want to be Thomas Jefferson‘s agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
Along with my father, Mandela is my hero.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
If you’re going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you’re tearing down someone else’s hero. You’re tearing down somebody else’s son. You might have to face her one day.
Good guy’ or ‘bad guy’, hero or anti hero; doesn’t matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I’m going to try not to completely creep her out. I love ‘Insecure.’
Ain’t nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say that.
Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you’re my hero.
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He’s a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.
Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
‘Shadow Hero’ was a dream to work on.
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It’s fun to give these people voices.
Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.
It’s important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we’re all equal.
As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you’ve ever met.
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they’ll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he’d be a national hero.
I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
In Ronald Reagan‘s chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.
Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
I love ‘Guitar Hero,’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture.
Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It’s about learning how to be your own super hero, put on your own cape, and be a well-rounded individual.
It’s quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
I wanted to be Ronaldinho. I studied him a lot. He was my hero.
‘Balthazar’ is very much about the title hero having to choose between his past and his future. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance to be happy – with Skye. But he has this terrible tendency to set himself up for heartbreak, in part because he punishes himself for his past.
‘Watchmen‘ is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.
When I was young, I thought Kim il-Sung or Kim Jong-il is hero.
My mother is my hero.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
I don’t necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero – it’s all down to the writing.
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
I’m a real-life action hero.
I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
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.
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
I’ve never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, ‘OK, now I’m going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles.’ Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be – you know what I mean?
The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn’t know about. I’m not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I’m speaking, it’s not from myself. I’m speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.
Don’t forget, you are the hero of your own story.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn’t are just much more interesting.
Unfortunately, any girl – unless you’re playing the action hero – is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero’s role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was happy to be able to document the development of a real American hero.
DuBois – my intellectual hero – had written an obit of Madam, praising her… I began to see Madam Walker beyond the definitions others had given her.
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
My father has always been my hero.
I’m not a hero.
Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine.
You can’t think that you’re playing a villain, or you’ll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
It’s hard to describe yourself as a hero – I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.
I was always the hero’s girlfriend or wife – actually, the woman with no voice.
I’m happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He’s a Spanish national hero. I’d rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.
You don’t send a man to his death because you want a hero.
One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with ‘Warcraft‘ in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.
It’s silly to say it about a tennis player, but I’m an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Most actors are like, ‘I want to be more like Marlon Brando.’ But when I was a little kid, I just wanted to be an action hero! Then I grew up, and my interests were different.
My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person.
I caught the mentorship bug when I was Miss California U.S.A. and volunteered to mentor for a brand new program called ‘Who’s Your Hero.’ I literally fell in love with the impact it all has, not only on the girls but on myself – giving back is such a powerful thing.
I was never considered ‘a marketable hero’, and never got promoted to that category. I am not complaining – I found another niche – comedy – which is equally enjoyable and brought me as much comfort as I need.
Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.
I love that Moana is a heroine, and I hope people take that away, and that you most certainly can be the heroine, or hero, of your own story.
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn’t want to be in and didn’t understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.
The hero is never the star of the story.
It’s been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
You mustn’t fall in love with your own hero.
I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren’t that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.
I’m not a guitar hero.
In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It’s brave of him.
I just thought, ‘I want to be an action hero.’
I didn’t ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I’m wrong about this, I guess I’ll become a bum.
I like Hindi movies. Although my wife thinks the hero and heroine breaking into a song and dance every five minutes is ridiculous, but I find them entertaining.
If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.
One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he’s constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It’s like he’s got two sides to him. And I’ve always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn’t a glorified hero.
Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this, at a time when we need all the heroes we can get. I knew him to be a good person, regardless of all the hype floating around in the media.
We’re all going to keep telling love stories, we’re all going to tell hero stories. It’s all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.
This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.
I didn’t want to be a hero to kids; I didn’t think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.
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.
People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don’t want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero and want to see everything in him.
This film ‘Hero’ talks about the peace of Chinese people.
When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.
Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in ‘Mad Max,’ and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
Prometheus – trickster, rebel and hero – links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man’s technologies.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad’s limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
I’ve seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn’t know they are making fun of the villain – but they are. If you aren’t afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?
It’s not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he’s still very present on TV because he’s commenting for Formula One.
Bin Laden’s role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
It was what I’ve always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.
Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he’s a terrorist.
Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged worlds; he was the hero of parables about street violence, sexual combat, war and natural disaster. It was always apocalypse or apotheosis now.
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn’t even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
I never played the ‘decoration,’ I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.
I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.
I am the hero of Africa.
