Hero Quotes

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
Goran Ivanisevic

Good, Car, Friend

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

Life, Cool, Character

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

Time, Women, Long

I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.
Barbara Broccoli

Romantic, Character, Lives

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
Michael Medved

Left, Hollywood, Industry

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
Avi Arad

Crazy, Emotional, Hard

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
Charles Dance

Made, Around, Written

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

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

Character, Play, Lives

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.
Billy Crudup

Good, Wish, Playing

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.
Joyce Banda

Business, Him, Small

I've been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what won't. I can tell instantly if it's a hero or a zero.
Lori Greiner

Work, Long, Tell

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
Orhan Pamuk

Give, Value, Wants

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
Orhan Pamuk

God, Experience, Long

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.
Elizabeth Banks

Rock, Real, Down

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.
Glenn Ford

End, Sometimes, Matter

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Freedom, Philosophy, Give

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.
Alexandra Kerry

Girl, Father, Her

To every little girl her father is a hero.
Alexandra Kerry

Girl, Father, Her

It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.
Alexandra Kerry

Father, Used, Getting

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

Game, Last, Useful

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
Brad Meltzer

Important, Book, Here

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. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.
Kevin Conroy

Parents, Someone, Him

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.
Kevin Conroy

Someone, Trouble, Audience

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
Morris Dees

Great, Job, Difficult

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Chow Yun-Fat

Love, Romantic, Play

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
Alex North

Old, Films, Radical

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
Richard E. Byrd

Progress, Public, Grows

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
Terence Fisher

Lost, Place, Wrong

'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.
Andrew Gross

Car, Crazy, Book

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