I believe in content. Just looking pretty next to the hero gives me no joy. I believe I have more to offer than that.
Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn’t have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, ‘I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.’
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
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.
Bollywood looks only at the box office numbers. If the film earns money, it is usually because of the hero and the director. It is about Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan.
Everyone’s the hero in their own story. You’ve lived your life. You’re the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
My mother’s death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
You can’t think that you’re playing a villain, or you’ll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.
My dad is like a cactus – introverted and tough. I’m a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He’s my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.
Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in ‘Enter The Dragon’ is amazing.
I sometimes feel like I’m caught in a vise. Some people feel like I’m some kind of hero. Others hate me.
In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.
A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.
Nat was my hero right from the very beginning. My dad brought his music into the house and played it over and over again.
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King’s dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
I thought, ‘Oh, this is great,’ because maybe someone who does look like me will watch ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was – he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
It’s been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
Public image can change at the drop of a hat. One person can be a national hero and a month later because he wore the wrong colour he’s violently hated so it just all depends.
Today’s action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.
You don’t have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people’s school days.
Proust is a hero of mine. I read ‘A la recherche’ in one go, and I’m a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.
My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I’ve always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.
My associate director, Lisa Leguillou, is remarkable: flying around, visiting all the companies. She is truly the unsung hero of ‘Wicked’. She has been by my side from day one, and she is invaluable. I frankly don’t know how she does it.
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
Kids love the Hulk, but they’re not really sure: ‘Is he a monster or is he a hero?’
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That’s the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That’s what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there’s always a role for the Everyman.
Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I’d be in a TV show with him was incredible.
Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he’s a terrorist.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
The hero of the ‘Peanuts’ is Charlie Brown. I play the dog that sleeps on the top of his dog box who’s a philosopher. I’m drawn to that. So I’m drawn to Barbossa as I’m drawn to Einstein, because they are outsiders, and I suppose, as a character actor, that’s the turf that you’re locked into, in a way.
The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun… but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn’t honorable, who didn’t protect those who couldn’t protect themselves, who didn’t value children and pets, who wasn’t independent and unselfish.
It’s just a great, legendary comic book hero and it’s one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it’s a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it’s time to do that with Wonder Woman.
Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to ‘Godzilla’ just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner.
In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.
When ‘American Pie’ happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ He was my hero.
If you’re an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don’t fit in, if you’re not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
I still don’t understand why the tag of ‘action hero’ follows me. My films have all these elements – romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There’s a reason to action in my films.
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
I don’t see a full-fledged career in Hollywood. I am happy with the cameos. Even Tom Cruise will only do special appearances in our films; he wouldn’t do a full hero movie. But it’s good to act in different cinema.
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Johnny Unitas was my hero.
It’s dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.
Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.
It was great to be able to play a hero in ‘The Magnificent Seven’ in a film industry where Asian actors are often limited to playing a villain.
Someone who’s a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
It’s always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.
That first meeting – the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love – is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you’ve won yourself readers.
Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think ‘super’ might have taken over.
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn’t looking at the hero, they’re looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
The Hindi film that connects with my life story the most is the movie ‘Hero’ – two brothers being lost and sort of coming back.
