Hero Quotes · Page 53

For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.

— Norman Mailer

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

— Max Landis

“Heroes don’t always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.”

— Andrea Randall

Heroes are made not born; love is destiny not faith, and you are forever not timeless.

— Anonymous

Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

— Adnan Sami

Being from Bollywood, at the end of the day our audiences like hero, heroine and villain.

— Esha Deol

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion…

— Ron Chernow

Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe…

— Imtiaz Ali

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when…

— Yiyun Li

As far as I am getting interesting projects to work in, it doesn't matter whether it's Bollywood, South or Gujarati. The script…

— Daisy Shah

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

— Richard Attenborough

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

— Anonymous

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of…

— Henry Fielding

“The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the…

— Nikki Rowe

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the…

— Francine Pascal

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts…

— Albert Camus

I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain.…

— Shuler Hensley

The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen,…

— Keanu Reeves

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed…

— Ramakrishna

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in…

— Jake Shimabukuro

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

— May Sarton

You don't do hero films about old men. They smell of wee, don't they?

— Peter Molyneux

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

— David Cameron

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

— Christopher Reeve

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

— John Wayne

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.

— Dave Grohl

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

— Warren Buffett

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not.

— Richard Cohen

“That's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.”

— Karen Russell

I'm not going to put my team in any situation where I go 0-for-5 because I want to play and be a…

— Yadier Molina

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

— Fred Durst

“Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance upon calls many.”

— Anastasia Bolinder

“Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.”

— Stefan Molyneux

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

— Anonymous

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.

— Brian O'Driscoll