Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Shusterman

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Nate Parker

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

Morgan Freeman

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Milan Kundera

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

Miep Gies

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

Miep Gies

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Mickey Spillane

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Margaret Weis

Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)

Lauryn Hill

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Lance Morrow

Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Johnny Depp

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

Johnny Depp

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

John Shelton Reed

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

John Rhys-Davies

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

James Scott

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

James Russell Lowell

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

James Russell Lowell

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

James Purefoy

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

Laura Dern

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

Laura Dern

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

Larry Hagman

All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago

Libba Bray

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

James Caan

The heroism of the role, ... was playing up the vulnerability of the role, and that was all Jimmy.

The heroes of the past have something important to tell us. The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose. One person really can make a difference. Doing the right thing always matters.

Jim Johnson

A hero turned traitor captivates people, ... You say, 'Arnold,' they say, 'traitor.' History is about people, and these people are doing something that people understand.

Jacque Fresco

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Henry Rollins

I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

Henry Rollins

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

Henry Rollins

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

Henry Rollins

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Henry Rollins

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

Henry A. Kissinger

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.