Hero Quotes

• A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Thinker

• The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Interesting
  • Hero

• I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

  

  Joel McCrea
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Hero

• Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Journey
  • Hero
  • Lawyer

• Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Friends
  • True
  • Death

• When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thing is, I'm happy that I'm able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • Up
  • Money
  • Kids

• There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Hero

• The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • World
  • Heart
  • Character

• While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, 'Man',And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hero

• My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Father
  • Hero

• There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • World
  • Lost
  • Brother

• 'Guitar Hero' was much more about us not innovating in a way that was appealing to audiences. It's not about oversaturating the market.

  

  Bobby Kotick
  • Hero

• I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Music
  • Game
  • Rock

• I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Music
  • American
  • Hero

• It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

  

  Cole Hauser
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Boy

• I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

  

  John McCain
  • Hero

• Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Hero
  • Lad
  • Elton John

• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Bond

• What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

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

  

  May Sarton
  • Hero

• The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Live
  • Worship
  • Imitation

• In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • World
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Moving
  • King
  • Hero

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