Hero Quotes

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

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

We are the hero of our own story.

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

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.

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.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.

'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.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

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

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.

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.