To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
A great JRPG captures that feeling of going on an unusual adventure, of bringing a ragtag group of heroes from famine to fortune or steering cold-hearted villagers away from indifference.
There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It’s a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
I’ve never written a character that wasn’t burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let’s face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He’s a healthy guy – imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.
Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
Each day in Texas, heroes risk their lives to protect ours.
My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles – who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century – and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I’ve inherited and that I must honor.
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you’re not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is ‘All the President’s Men.’ Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
I am box-set girl; I buy into those big American series like ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘Heroes.’
I couldn’t have written things like ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes,’ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.
There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away.
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants – one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes – is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.
I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. ‘Legion of Super Heroes,’ ‘New Wolverine: The X – Men’ animated series, ‘Afro Samurai’ and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there – I like to mix it up.
In terms of people who we call heroes – and I don’t tend to like that term, and firefighters don’t consider themselves heroes – but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
I’ve met so many real heroes, people whose service has given me the life I’m lucky to live on U.S. soil.
I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don’t need weapons or super powers to change people’s lives.
If someone comes to me with a script and says, ‘Sir, this hero…’ I’m like, ‘Is there a name, or he is just called a hero?’ We are not heroes. Heroes are people fighting for us at the border. We are not heroes; we are just doing our job.
I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it’s in the context of super heroes.
I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.
I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they’re on fire and save people in hospitals.
The heroines for our established heroes are getting younger and younger. So the heroines, who started their careers with these established heroes, are quickly promoted to senior roles.
We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.
People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It’s not the home-run hitters.
To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary – these are all the things that sort of defined him.
Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.
You read in any war stories – World War II, whatever – that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don’t always know about.
I’d love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He’s one of my heroes. I think he’s absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
One of the things I really like about Ford’s films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America’s heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.
The evil within the fantasy genre tends to be threatening to the heroes within the story, but not to the reader – or not to the viewer, in the case of cinema – and that’s why I think it’s more palatable and something that is more easily embraced for a lot of people.
I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.
I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my ‘War Stories’ documentary series – and when FOX News wants – I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
It’s silly to say it about a tennis player, but I’m an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle – say, to save the lives of others – without any promise of reward.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.
