I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
Boris Becker

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
Kirsten Dunst

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

I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spike Milligan

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?
Donald Pleasence

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
Steven Cojocaru

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
Bob Feller

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
Adrian Edmondson

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Alfred P. Sloan

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
Steve Guttenberg

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.
Sanaa Lathan

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
Kit Carson

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
Ken Follett

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
Akshay Kumar