My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, ‘This isn’t how it’s meant to be.’ It wasn’t about making music so much as selling it.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
By the time we’re adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.
You should know that there are heroes here who are unduly worried about each role they portray.
I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.
In the ’70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.
I’m very bad at having heroes. I don’t rate anyone particularly highly because I’m so snide and competitive and not very nice.
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
There are heroes and then there are legends, heroes get remembered but legends never die.
My heroes in real life are definitely my mom for being true to herself, for having a foot in both worlds, for being so very polite – Canadian and also such a traditional Greek woman. I would sum it up this way: the life lesson she would say is be polite while you’re breaking the rules.
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
Yes, I’m a fan, and ‘The Lost City of Z’ has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and I loved the book and the film. I was lost in the same area that Fawcett had explored, and I can identify with his sense of passion and obsession, and I definitely see the romance in searching for lost treasure.
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.
Heroes don’t wear diapers. It’s just not cool.
Yes, it’s a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren’t necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.
I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it’s very impactful.
Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They’re not quite human beings. They’re somehow larger than human scale.
It’s pretty simple, really: I love the X-Men. They were my favorite heroes when I was a kid. My dad and I collected X-Men comics together, and I know it would have made him proud to see me writing ‘Uncanny X-Men.’
I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust – people who recognise that life doesn’t consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
I’m really excited to be a part of the ‘Fallen Heroes’ EP.
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
One of my early heroes was Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
I feel that our country’s real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings – stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn’t matter – it’s the trying that counts.
People consider me a hero, but I turn around and look at the military people overseas. They’re the freaking heroes. They’re the ones putting their lives on the line for America.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes – is our Army of the Dead.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
I’ve won some awards. ‘Time’ magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I’ve got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn’t get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.
We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I’ll tell you this – heroes don’t come home. Survivors come home.
There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don’t fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.
Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don’t always look the same is a huge honour for me.
Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it’s time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I’ve asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That’s really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
I’ve portrayed cops as heroes for far too long, I think.
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
Since ‘Heroes’ started, I’ve probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those, maybe one was good.
They’re people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes’ lives.
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
My dad was a prize fighter in his youth. My boxing skills are very limited. I did train for most of my youth but couldn’t really see the point of getting punched in the head. I’m a lover, not a fighter, but I do enjoy the sport in its purest form. As a child, my heroes were my dad and Muhammad Ali.
I never appreciated ‘positive heroes’ in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more ‘productive’ literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
