Hero Quotes

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Calculation never made a hero.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

My Dad is my hero.

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

I think Michael Moore is a hero.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.