Around Quote by Tavi Gevinson

Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.

— Kate DiCamillo

I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.

— Tony Bennett

When I was 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.

— Alden Ehrenreich

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

— Wes Streeting

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really…

— Paulo Costanzo

I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If…

— Steve Vai

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

— Navid Negahban

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where…

— John Hughes

I started very young as a hero.

— Kartik Aaryan

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

— Micky Dolenz

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

— Dwayne Johnson

When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over…

— Trevor Noah