Hero Quotes

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

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.

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.