Heroes Quotes

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

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

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.

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.

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

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.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

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

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

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.

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.

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.