Hero Quotes
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When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
Peter Coyote
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When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young whippersnapper and Howard was kind of an outlaw hero. I said to him - and it's on tape, a cousin of his filmed our meeting - I said, "If you write a book, I want to play you in a movie." He said, "Let's shake on it," and we did. Thirteen years later, there we were, making the movie.
Rhys Ifans
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Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
Whoopi Goldberg
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I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
Steven Cojocaru
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Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
Willard Scott
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If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.
Darrell Waltrip
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Greatest American Hero, I really dug that as a kid, because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.
Rhys Darby
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I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.
Andrew Davidson
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
Steven Spielberg
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Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.
Paul Auster
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
Homer
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There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.
Caragh M. O'Brien
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Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.
Alex Bledsoe
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Tina Fey is my hero. Some of the most brilliant people don't come off as brilliant.
Sunil Yapa
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Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.
Rhys Ifans
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It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently a fool when he gets killed.
George S. Patton
