Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanette Winterson

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

Jim Carrey

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

Jethro Tull

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

Jet Li

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

Jet Li

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

George Eliot

There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

Frank Rich

There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.

Frank Shorter

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

George Jean Nathan

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

Christine Feehan

He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith

Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

Christian Bale

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

Chris Vance

I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.

Chris Penn

Criminals have means motive and opportunity – Heros do too

Chris Pratt

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

Chris Pine

We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.

Chris Lilley

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

Chris Lilley

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

Chris Kyle

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

Chris Kattan

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

Chris Jericho

I am Chris Jericho, your new hero! And I am the new millenium for the World Wrestling Federation!

George Takei

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

George Soros

It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.

George R. R. Martin

We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.

George R. R. Martin

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

George R. R. Martin

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

George R. R. Martin

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

George R. R. Martin

It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

George R. R. Martin

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

George R. R. Martin

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

George R. R. Martin

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

George R. R. Martin

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.