Hero Quotes
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Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It's about learning how to be your own super hero, put on your own cape, and be a well-rounded individual.
Karen Civil -
I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.
MaryJanice Davidson
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A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
Debi Mazar -
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
Daniel Bruhl -
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
Gavin DeGraw -
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
Edmond Rostand -
Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.
Doug Liman -
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Randeep Hooda -
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
Colin Trevorrow -
Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.
Fred Willard -
'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.
Gene Luen Yang -
Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band.
David Hepworth -
Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
Alan Colmes
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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.
Victoria Pratt -
A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
Randeep Hooda -
When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
Andrew Solomon -
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco -
There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.
Phil Klay -
To spend time with Ed Harris... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.
Jim Sturgess
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
Gareth Bale -
When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.
Kris Kristofferson -
My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
Magic Johnson -
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
Kenneth Tynan