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You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
David Lee Roth

Music, Famous, Feeling

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
Hank Azaria

Time, Real, Find

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.
Greta Scacchi

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

Home, Anyone, Return

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Love, Great, Create

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
Vivian Campbell

Great, Important, Guitar

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy

Live, Words, Story

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary McCarthy

Happen, Novel, Curious

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
Martin Amis

America, Traitor, England

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
Brett Ratner

Love, Guitar, Culture

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.
Michael Chabon

Joe, Sammy, Sidekick

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.
Michel Gondry

Working, Stars, Idea

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.
Jonah Goldberg

Government, Political, Country

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
Justin Cronin

Beauty, Sunshine, Put

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

Him, Loved, Idol

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.
Chris Kattan

Dating, Wish, Ladies

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
Felicity Jones

Play, Brave, Difficult

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

Men, Mind, Young

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
Victoria Pratt

Time, Women, Strong

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
John Shelby Spong

Against, Themselves, Party

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
Don Bluth

Emotional, Job, Through

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Time, Sometimes, Talk

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
Zoe Kazan

Mom, She, Actor

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Felix Adler

Life, Great, Men

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.
Peter Mullan

Kids, Darling, Potter

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.
Paul Giamatti

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
Tom Berenger

End, Person, Him

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.
Brian Cox

Great, Night, Thought

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
Charles Eastman

Old, American, Themselves

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
Nik Wallenda

Life, Everything, Behind

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