Hero Quotes

• If we gays want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Attention
  • Government
  • Gay

• We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.

  

  Peter Coyote
  • Energy
  • Hero
  • Safety

• I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Thinking
  • Band
  • Guitar

• The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Country
  • Hero
  • Fights

• I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

  

  Riley Keough
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• I. Rishman, for obvious reasons and Stark Rousseau, the name of the hero in a crappy spy novel I read.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Hero
  • Reasons
  • Spy Novel

• As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero.

  

  Terence Lewis
  • Dance
  • Hero
  • Kid

• In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Hero
  • Chicken

• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Mind
  • Growing
  • Sometimes

• If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Book
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

  

  Morgan Neville
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Hero

• A nation without heroes is nothing.

  

  Roberto Clemente
  • Hero
  • Nations

• I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

  

  John O'Neill
  • War
  • Hero
  • Tie

• I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe was the best all-around player. Joe was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Problem
  • Player
  • Hero

• Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word.

  

  Arlene Hunt
  • Hero
  • Word
  • Meaning

• She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.

  

  Christie Craig
  • She
  • Kids
  • Rock

• Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Moving
  • Waiting
  • Lord

• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Book
  • Together
  • Moving

• Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

  

  Simon Kinberg
  • Movie
  • Hero
  • Villain

• You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.

  

  Butch Cassidy
  • Kids
  • Hero

• There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • People
  • Up
  • Respect

• A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Faults
  • Omelet
  • Eggshell

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