Hero Quotes

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
Anson Mount

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.
Meshell Ndegeocello

Music, Care, Give

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.
Mickey Spillane

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

Play, Action, Ready

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.
Jeannette Walls

Life, Parents, Real

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.
Jermaine Jackson

Nothing, Lost, Brother

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
Sandra Oh

Important, Give, Chance

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
Dick Schaap

Sports, Greatest, Two

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

Life, Everyone, Story

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

Time, Woman, Started

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
Sanaa Lathan

Woman, Black, Expect

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.
Antony Sher

Play, Rewarding, Physically

I don't believe in hero worship.
Bobby Fischer

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
Mstislav Rostropovich

Great, Voice, Feminine

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

Tired, Through, Wonderful

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
David Alan Grier

Dad, Him, Living

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake.
James Marsters

Home, Waiting, Someone

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
Joe Dante

Small, Movie, Town

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
Illeana Douglas

Idea, Loved, Ghost

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
Alfred Molina

Romantic, Big, Stars

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
Will McDonough

Great, Around, Known

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

Change, Women, Strong

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
Robert Jay Lifton

Sports, Baseball, Else

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
Dario Fo

Life, Sun, Whole

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
Richard Hammond

Action, Cars, Bond

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.
Michael Cunningham

Mind, Confidence, Find

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
Julie Taymor

Sick, Honest, Quite

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

Before, Chance, Played

My mother is my hero.
J. R. Martinez

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

Good, Character, Bad

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