At every step in his life, DiMaggio was what New Yorkers wanted in a hero.
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.
My father Arun Ahuja was an actor, and he did films as a hero.
I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me – because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I’d never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven’t since – the world will be a greyer place without him.
Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I’m going to try not to completely creep her out. I love ‘Insecure.’
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a hero, to have played different comedic roles. She gets sexier, funnier, and better with time.
When I was growing up, I didn’t have a hometown hero.
When you’re not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you’re always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that’s always an interesting place to be.
In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams – really a top, top artist that the ‘New Yorker’ was lucky to find and employ.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Characters have to make sacrifices. To really, really feel the true emotion and the hero’s journey, they have to go through trials, and those trials could cost them something.
I don’t sense that I am someone’s hero, though I’m happy when people like my work. I’ve learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I’ve seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Calculation never made a hero.
I have always been against the gangster as hero.
Generally speaking, I would say villains are a little more exciting to play, but if you get a flawed hero, then that can almost be just as amazing.
I haven’t been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of ‘Big Hero’s’ success. I’m just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that’s come after that has been secondary to the initial response.
I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I’ve completed most recently. Yes, I’m faithless and fickle!
As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero.
I know that Cena has a lot of detractors, but I’m very proud of him. He’s a good hero.
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.
I like to give people equipment and stuff. For me, it’s a kind of payback. Anyone who is an influence or hero for me, I’m always concerned with how I can balance the karma.
I have three sons, as different from each other as any three humans could be but connected by their shared love of Guitar Hero. I’m lucky to be married to a man I can call my soulmate without any irony whatsoever.
Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother’s flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad’s records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.
Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.
We need to redefine what a hero looks like.
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.
I like to say I’m not a hero.
In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
I went into this little reptile park, and Steve was doing the crocodile show, coincidentally… I was absolutely floored. That was it. This man was a real-life hero. I fell then and there, love at first sight.
You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it’s tough to do that – you only have 90 minutes.
Bette Davis is my hero. I’m obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
I consider everyone a hero, to be honest.
People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don’t want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero and want to see everything in him.
I believe that every single person attached to a film is a character and nothing more. I don’t categorize them as hero, heroine, etc.
I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
There’s exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing – unless you’re going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you’re an action hero.
I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
‘The Red’ is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
I was never considered ‘a marketable hero’, and never got promoted to that category. I am not complaining – I found another niche – comedy – which is equally enjoyable and brought me as much comfort as I need.
Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.
I didn’t ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I’m wrong about this, I guess I’ll become a bum.
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever.
I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It’s not what I do.
I don’t know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
I don’t want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
I think a lot of people can relate to that school is pretty lousy for a lot of people, and it just shows that you don’t have to be perfect and you can still be a hero.
I’ve always taken a lot of pride that people believed in me as a hero. I tried not to fail them in my life.
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn’t. I didn’t get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn’t come easy.
The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.
We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there’s no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
For years, I tried to resist the hero label.
Walt Disney was my great hero.
The hero is never the star of the story.
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions – a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con – and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
I’ve seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn’t know they are making fun of the villain – but they are. If you aren’t afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?
