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.
David Guterson

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Morgan Freeman

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
Ethel Merman

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

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

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth

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

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.
Connie Willis

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
Alan Colmes

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
Warren Zevon

God is a hero.
Stacie Orrico

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
Rutger Hauer

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

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
Tia Carrere

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'
Roy Horn

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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.
Eddie Campbell