Hero Quotes

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night.

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

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

God is a hero.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

I am not a hero.