Heroes Quotes

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

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

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

Our athletes are our heroes.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.