Quotes about hero
hero men fur
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
hero men stamps
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
hero people special
My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves. Haruki Murakami
hero sound my-hero
It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself. John Mayer
hero appreciate people
It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison — it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo. John Lennon
hero class working-class
A working class hero is something to be.
hero men saint
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. John Lancaster Spalding
hero boys thrown
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero. John Barth
hero sacrifice order
You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices. John Barrowman
hero gay men
I’m an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that?
hero writing action
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
hero stories actors
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
hero special want
I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves. Joanna Russ
hero character men
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be. George Lucas
hero brokeback-mountain aces
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes
hero thinking hunting
We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need? Chris Abani
hero giving needs
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free. Walter Benjamin
hero needs recycling
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling. Banksy
hero villain dies
Live as a villain, die as a hero
hero men feelings
But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due. Alexander Pushkin
hero play perception
In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment. Abhishek Bachchan
hero mean should-have
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women. Abigail Adams
hero heart character
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
hero character men
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor. Aaron Paul
hero mean pragmatists
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. Adam Phillips
hero fans green
I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too. Adam Levine
hero men guy
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach. Adam Baldwin
hero firefighter long
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
hero saved
Timber is my hero and undoubtedly saved my life,
hero evil sides
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. Dalton Trumbo
hero people admire
I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.' Dalia Mogahed
hero people complexes
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
hero legends figures
Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero David Cameron