Hero Quotes

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.

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.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

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 learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.