Hero Quotes
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In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.
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In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...
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As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.
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We need to redefine what a hero looks like.
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For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
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I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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My biggest hero in the whole world was my dad.
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It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.
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Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.
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The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
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As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
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Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
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I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.
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The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
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No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
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The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
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As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.
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Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
