Hero Quotes
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I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
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But no man's a hero to himself.
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Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
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No man is a hero in his own country.
John Monash -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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I chose to write the kind of romance I love best - one with a sheikh hero.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
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It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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Every veteran is a hero.
