Hero Quotes

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

To every little girl her father is a hero.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.