Hero Quotes

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
Debi Mazar

Money, Food, Passion

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman

Love, Strong, Powerful

Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig.
Nicolas Cage

Voice, Brothers, Duck

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelley

Someone, Apology, Admire

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.
Kevin Costner

Forget, Someone, Down

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

War, Loser, Die

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Blushing, Blush

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Gene Hackman

Between, Coward, Step

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
Christopher Meloni

Movies, Yourself, Live

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Anthony Trollope

God, Poor, Last

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
Hugh Laurie

Nature, Character, Realize

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'
Michael Sheen

Around, Story, Perceive

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

Reason, Here, Anyone

When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.
Seann William Scott

Good, Job, American

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.
Thomas Perry

Time, Fun, Character

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Elia Kazan

Art, Working, Young

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.
David Soul

History, Science, Teacher

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.
Steven Gerrard

Football, Far, Status

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
David D. Burns

Suffering, Honor, Playing

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Mom, Dad

Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Newman

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.
PSY

Role, Lifetime, Model

Every generation of children has its private hero.
Arthur Smith

Children, Generation, Private

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.
Frank Miller

Feeling, Why, Wrong

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

Calm, Word, Genius

Walt Disney was my great hero.
Stanislav Grof

Great, Disney, Walt

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

Religion, God, Society

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
Rob Sheffield

Cool, Job, Through

I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
Nathan Fillion

Good, Greatest, Thought

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

Love, Reality, Mole

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