Top 595 Heroes Quotes

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow’s criminals that were yesterday’s heroes.

On ‘Heroes’ I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don’t know – you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

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.

The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes – the boys of summer – is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.

‘Heroes’ was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects.

As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

I like underground rappers – Cory Gunz is a young kid that’s been really doing his thing. I’m a Gym Class Heroes type of fan even though they’re not new, but they’re definitely trendsetters.

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It’s often thought that a woman can’t be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You’re stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it’s just trying to peel away and see what’s underneath them. That to me is really fun.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn’t in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren’t so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles!

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

When a kid smiles because you take an extra 30 seconds, minute, minute and a half to go over and ask them what their name is, give them the shirt you just wore to the ring, you just see them light up. We’ve all been kids before; we’ve all had our heroes, been fans of somebody and needed that autograph.

Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe’s heroes.

For many terrorists, carrying out an attack allowed them to become the heroes of their own story.

I have had unattractive heroes – broken noses, scars, crooked teeth. You want to give them something that is human. My heroines struggle with being too short or fat or old. Some are older than the heroes. You try to cover all spectrums.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

I’m not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes.

There are some characters in ‘The Names’ who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke – George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.

I’ve always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

Too many of my heroes have been cut down, but do I want security guards? No. I’ve been offered them in the past. But the more you present yourself as someone afraid of being attacked, the more people see you as someone to attack.

The stories I want to tell are when we’re our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don’t think that’s a rude thing to ask for. I don’t think that’s something I should apologize for.

No, people back home don’t realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don’t really understand what’s going on here. They don’t understand why Camp X-ray exists.

Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.

People in the South want heroes to be their own, whereas it is easier for them to accept a villain who hails from another state.

I been living down in Atlanta, but everyone back home has been in my thoughts, especially those doing something for the community and all the neighborhood heroes. I thought about all the first responders putting their lives on the line to help out and it inspired me, so I took a jet back to Chicago to show my thanks.

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

Stephen King is one of my all-time heroes, so, of course, the pressure never lets up. Every second, you hope he’ll like it. I remember getting a call from him after he read my script for ‘Hearts in Atlantis.’ He liked it. Talk about relief.

The ‘punch’ of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law – an imaginative escape from palling reality – hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical ‘heroes.’

Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.

The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.

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

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

My heroes were Gene Wilder, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.

I’ve got so many dance heroes, and it’s such a cliche, but how can I not say Michael Jackson? Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul – they are the people I remember when I was a little girl, watching their videos and trying to learn all the choreography.

My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company – a service – that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.

I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It’s something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion – those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I’d like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

People need to feel like their heroes are human, not on the mat but in the world. The more people can see that, the more they can understand that they’re capable of doing great things as well.

Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.

Mothers who work full time – they’re the real heroes.

Our athletes are our heroes.

Cliff Gallup is one of my heroes; I’d dearly love to meet him.

In most shows, there’s usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy.

They say don’t meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I’ve ever met.

I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.