Hero Quotes · Page 79

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

— RuPaul

I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It's not what I do.

— Robert Picardo

Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value.

— Johnny Hunt

“a hero was only a hero if the person being saved wasn’t strong enough to save themselves.”

— Laury Falter

Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

— Sylvia Day

“Once again, my hero. And here I’m supposed to be the one saving him.”

— Cynthia Hand

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

— Judd Nelson

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

— Aldous Huxley

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not…

— Ezra Pound

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up…

— Zora Neale Hurston

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

— Samuel Johnson

“Sometimes standing up for what is right isn't the popular choice. It may make you look like a villain, but you're not.…

— Heather Jacobs

“The only thing stopping you from being the hero of your favorite story is the voice in your head that repeats to…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

You're going to be the goat and you have to learn to accept it. When you're the hero, you're going to have…

— Carey Price

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the…

— Tom Baker

Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk…

— Daniel Gillies

“We want readers to understand and reap the benefits of being resilient, as the more resilient you are, the more persistent and…

— Kate Zourkas

Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?"…

— Rick Riordan

Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of…

— Tinie Tempah

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I…

— Dan Brown

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and…

— Ali Larter

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were…

— Dwight Longenecker

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same…

— Sekou Odinga

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

— Ira Hayes

Everybody who really does what he is capable of, is a hero

— Mats Hummels

I'm not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes.

— Joshua Wong

“My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.”

— Jonathan Franzen

You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.

— Derek Landy

“I'll show Dunky he's not the only one in the family who can rush foolishly into danger!”

— Christopher Healy

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

— Barry Eisler

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

— Marina Abramovic

I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.

— Deborah Ann Woll

“I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet. - Marshal Law”

— Pat Mills

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

— Joseph Campbell

Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

— Simon Kinberg

As a child my hero was my dad. I always wanted to be like him.

— Tim Key

I only sign up to play the hero when I am that sure of the script, which, believe it or not, comes…

— Biju Menon

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

— Brett Dennen