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Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

 ✍ Author: Kevin Bacon

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

Tags: Children, Touch  ✍ Author: Stephen Baker

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.

Tags: Dad, Life  ✍ Author: Gareth Bale

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

Tags: Business, Him  ✍ Author: George Bancroft

I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

Tags: Real, Rock  ✍ Author: Elizabeth Banks

Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig.

Tags: Brothers, Voice  ✍ Author: John Cage

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

Tags: Speak, Time  ✍ Author: Eddie Campbell

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Tags: Life, Someone  ✍ Author: Joseph Campbell

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

Tags: Great, Guitar  ✍ Author: Vivian Campbell

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Tags: Become, Today  ✍ Author: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Tags: Films, Written  ✍ Author: Charles Dance

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Tags: Game, Last  ✍ Author: Josephus Daniels

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.

Tags: Movie, Small  ✍ Author: Joe Dante

I think Michael Moore is a hero.

Tags: Michael, Moore  ✍ Author: Larry David

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Tags: Freedom, Someone  ✍ Author: Bob Dylan

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Tags: Freedom, Someone  ✍ Author: Bob Dylan

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

Tags: American, Old  ✍ Author: Charles Eastman

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Tags: Dreams, Real  ✍ Author: Umberto Eco

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

Tags: Chance, Played  ✍ Author: Adrian Edmondson

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Tags: Character, Lives  ✍ Author: Jesse Eisenberg

I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'

Tags: Guitar, Rock  ✍ Author: Carmen Electra

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Tags: Brave, Longer  ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Tags: Bore, Last  ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Tags: Father, Home  ✍ Author: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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.

Tags: Love, Romantic  ✍ Author: Chow Yun-Fat
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I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

Tags: Him, Proud  ✍ Author: Roger Federer

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Tags: Name, Soldiers  ✍ Author: Allyson Felix

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Tags: Anyone, Home  ✍ Author: Allyson Felix

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Tags: Show, Write  ✍ Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

Tags: American, Black  ✍ Author: Morgan Freeman

You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.

Tags: Handsome, Next  ✍ Author: Billy Gardell

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Tags: Life, Political  ✍ Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Tags: Alive, Medical  ✍ Author: Atul Gawande

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Tags: Appear, Rather  ✍ Author: Baltasar Gracian

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Tags: Between, Coward  ✍ Author: Gene Hackman

I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

Tags: Job, Trying  ✍ Author: Pooch Hall

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

Tags: Action, Car  ✍ Author: Richard Hammond

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Tags: Cannot, Unless  ✍ Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

Tags: Hold, Real  ✍ Author: Mitch Hedberg

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Tags: Coward, Wife  ✍ Author: Dolores Ibarruri

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Tags: Today, Tomorrow  ✍ Author: Washington Irving

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

Tags: Fun, Him  ✍ Author: Bindi Irwin

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Tags: Friends, Whole  ✍ Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

Tags: Brother, Lost  ✍ Author: Jermaine Jackson

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

Tags: Dating, Wish  ✍ Author: Chris Kattan

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

Tags: Art, Working  ✍ Author: Elia Kazan

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

Tags: Mom, She  ✍ Author: Zoe Kazan

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Tags: Head, Him  ✍ Author: R. D. Laing

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

Tags: Movies, Put  ✍ Author: Max Landis

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Tags: May, Vision  ✍ Author: Norman Mailer

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

Tags: Show, Story  ✍ Author: Marilyn Manson

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Tags: Action, Difference  ✍ Author: Henry Miller

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

Tags: Johnny  ✍ Author: Joe Namath

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

Tags: Care, Music  ✍ Author: Meshell Ndegeocello

Calculation never made a hero.

 ✍ Author: John Henry Newman

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Tags: Him, Night  ✍ Author: Wayne Newton

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

Tags: Everyone, Novel  ✍ Author: William Nicholson

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Tags: Knows, Longer  ✍ Author: Novalis

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

Tags: Happy, Thought  ✍ Author: Carroll O\'Connor

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

Tags: Poverty, Remember  ✍ Author: Frances O\'Grady

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

Tags: Shoes, War  ✍ Author: Jennifer O\'Neill

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

Tags: Chance, Give  ✍ Author: Sandra Oh

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Tags: Good, Life  ✍ Author: James Otis

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

Tags: Lifetime, Role  ✍ Author: PSY

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

Tags: Art, Time  ✍ Author: Camille Paglia

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Tags: Give, Value  ✍ Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Tags: Men, Wise  ✍ Author: Sylvia Plath

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Tags: Dream, Movies  ✍ Author: Elvis Presley

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Tags: Movies, Sometimes  ✍ Author: Mike Quade

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

Tags: Character, Question  ✍ Author: Raymond Queneau

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

Tags: Guitar, Love  ✍ Author: Brett Ratner

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Tags: Earth, Profession  ✍ Author: Will Rogers

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Tags: Die, Main  ✍ Author: Will Rogers

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

Tags: Show, Welcome  ✍ Author: Gil Scott-Heron

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

Tags: Guitar, Music  ✍ Author: Carlos Santana

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Tags: Decent, Human  ✍ Author: May Sarton

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

Tags: Among, Teddy  ✍ Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Tags: Cannot, Coward  ✍ Author: George Bernard Shaw

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Tags: Great, Love  ✍ Author: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

Tags: Change, Powerful  ✍ Author: Susan L. Taylor

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

Tags: Honest, Sick  ✍ Author: Julie Taymor

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Tags: Between, Why  ✍ Author: Andrew Vachss

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

Tags: Bad, Give  ✍ Author: Ken Venturi

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

Tags: Time, Women  ✍ Author: Marcia Wallace

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

Tags: Behind, Life  ✍ Author: Nik Wallenda

Every veteran is a hero.

Tags: Veteran  ✍ Author: Joe Walsh

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Tags: Country, Woman  ✍ Author: Joe Walsh

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

Tags: Growing, Olympic  ✍ Author: Kerri Walsh

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

Tags: Desire, Real  ✍ Author: Jess Walter

Always the heavy and never the hero - that's me.

Tags: Heavy  ✍ Author: Leonard Warren

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Tags: Give, Order  ✍ Author: Simone Weil

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Tags: May, Young  ✍ Author: Walt Whitman

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Tags: Society, Strong  ✍ Author: Gao Xingjian

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Tags: Feeling, Personal  ✍ Author: Zhang Yimou

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

Tags: Good, Guitar  ✍ Author: Aaron Yoo

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Tags: Him, Loved  ✍ Author: Warren Zevon

I am the hero of Africa.

Tags: Africa  ✍ Author: Henri Frederic Amiel

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Tags: America, Traitor  ✍ Author: Martin Amis

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Tags: Serious, Spiritual  ✍ Author: Maxwell Anderson

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

Tags: Edge, Fun  ✍ Author: Shawn Ashmore

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