Hero Quotes
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I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
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Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!
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I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
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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.
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Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.
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I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.
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Johnny Unitas was my hero.
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But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.
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Ruth Gordon was such a delight to watch in 'Rosemary's Baby' after I had first seen her in 'Harold and Maude.' And Ellen Burstyn is a hero of mine from 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' The Exorcist,' 'Requiem For A Dream.' These women impacted me greatly as an actress.
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My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.
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I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.
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'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.
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Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
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One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.
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My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
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Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
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Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
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Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.
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There's a hero, If you look inside your heart...
