Hero Quotes

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.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

No man is a hero in his own country.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

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.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

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.

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

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

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

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

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

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.

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

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

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.