Hero Quotes

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

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.

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.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

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?

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

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

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.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

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.

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

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

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

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.