Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else’s Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.
If you were really a feminist, you’d support housewives. You’d see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting their time!
I wouldn’t have raced a horse. But you’ll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he’s one of my heroes, so I’m not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They’re highly unreliable, and they’ve got brains the size of golf balls.
Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from ‘The Addams Family.’
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.
We can’t constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.
Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they’re good people. So if they’re in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don’t accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.
At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
A lot people hit the road trying to make some cash. We are out here trying to do something that we really believe in. That’s what all of our musical heroes always did.
‘Heroes’ really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography – Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.
Unfortunately, when you look at the amount of comic book heroes out there, minority heroes are few and far between.
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren’t relatable, and if you can’t put yourself in the protagonist’s shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
