Hero Quotes - page 16

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen. (Nathan Gamble)
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap. View quote
Orlando Jones
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. View quote
Peter Eisenman
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for. View quote
Peter Temple
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. View quote
Patrick Stewart
Joe Louis was one of my first heroes. View quote
Robert Goulet
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. View quote
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return. View quote
Roger Staubach
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. (Ron Chernow)
The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. View quote
Richard Attenborough
My one ambition is to play a hero. View quote
Sessue Hayakawa
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. View quote
Silvia Cartwright
We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to. View quote
Stacie Orrico
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions. View quote
Stan Sakai
Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all. View quote
Stephen Frears
I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too! View quote
Suzanne Brockmann
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. View quote
Sydney Pollack
You would never expect a black woman to be the hero. (Sanaa Lathan)
We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol. View quote
Todd Tiahrt
The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. View quote
Tammy Bruce
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change. View quote
Tate Taylor
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero. View quote
Upamanyu Chatterjee