Walt Disney was my great hero.
Stanislav Grof

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.
Jan de Bont

We are the hero of our own story.
Mary McCarthy

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
Daphne du Maurier

What is a hero without love for mankind.
Doris Lessing

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
Jean Claude Van Damme

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley

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.
Gavin DeGraw

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.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

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.
Tecumseh

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.
John Hunter

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.
Tom Berenger

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
Paddy Chayefsky

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
Merton Miller

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
Sanaa Lathan