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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
Matthew Fox

Pretty, Perfect, Playing

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
Bob Feller

Soldiers, Name, Hear

Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.
Wilbur Smith

Work, Father, Born

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.
Lee Child

Love, Fall, Mustn

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
Kamala Harris

Mother, Greatest, Remain

Johnny Unitas was my hero.
Joe Namath

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
George Foreman

Change, Someone

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

War, Respect, President

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.
Ron Chernow

Great, After, Deal

I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'
Carmen Electra

Rock, Play, Guitar

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
Carter Burwell

Life, Movies, Bond

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
Michael Morpurgo

Christian, Kids, Mine

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
Dave Pelzer

War, Before, Victim

I am the hero of Africa.
Idi Amin

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.
Jet Li

Peace, Film, Talks

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Jet Li

Real, Violence, Movie

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.
Frank Miller

Real, Perfect, Dark

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
Jodie Foster

Movies, Writing, Action

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.
Danny Strong

Love, Able, Idea

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Great, Makes, Both

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
Dave Brubeck

Father, Him, Wanted

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

Today, Become, Action

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

Great, War, Him

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.
Jamie Bell

Technology, Help, Him

My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
Pharrell Williams

Style, Batman, Stark

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Steve Wozniak

Freedom, Knowledge, Children

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
Levon Helm

Good, Wanted, Times

Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
Matthew Rhys

Love, Great, Care

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

Good, Small, Short

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman.
Joel Silver

Life, Time, Great

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