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

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
Avi Arad

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
Dawn French

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

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
Wilferd A. Peterson

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

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
James Otis

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Adam Sandler

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

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.
Sean Hayes

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.
Alexandra Kerry

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
Raymond Queneau

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
Bruce Willis

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman Mailer