Heroes Quotes

• 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 Maroon 5
  • Wonder
  • Green
  • Heroes

• My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Real
  • Always
  • Heroes

• There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Heroes
  • Heroines
  • No Excuse

• I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Literature
  • Italian
  • Heroes

• I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Think
  • Angry

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Forest
  • Heroes
  • Harris

• Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

  

  Plato
  • Heroes
  • Storytelling
  • Leisure

• Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Kind
  • Same
  • Heroes

• Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

  

  Norman Thomas
  • Virtue
  • Heroes
  • Rebellion

• There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Something
  • About
  • Heroes

• People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nothing
  • Heroes
  • Idols

• Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Cool
  • Just
  • Heroes

• When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Heroes

• I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Culture
  • Singing
  • Sorry

• I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Always
  • About
  • Heroes

• My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

  

  J. D. Souther
  • History
  • Opinion
  • Miracle

• I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Moment

• I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Admire
  • Heroes

• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Heroes
  • Identify
  • Clint

• I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Handsome

• Heroes can be sweet.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Sweet
  • Heroes

• People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Control
  • Fall

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