Heroes Quotes

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

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

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

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 fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

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

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

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

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

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

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

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

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.