Hero Quotes

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.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

We are the hero of our own story.

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

'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.