Hero Quotes
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.
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Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.
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He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn't as stern as he was on camera. He was like a kid around me.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.
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How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?
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I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.
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The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
