Quotes About Heroes

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

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 think '24' is a more mature audience, whereas 'Heroes' is a little bit younger. But I have to say, neither one is child friendly. My daughter doesn't get to watch either show!

I look like a typical Bengali. Whereas the qualities people were used to seeing in heroes were dance and action, which aren't really Bengali characteristics.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.

Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She's a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.

I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it's very impactful.

I usually don't choose any of my Tamil films depending on the heroes but give priority to the script.

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.

I don't care if the heroes are short. That's their problem.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

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 didn't watch a film after the 1960s. I have no idea who all were the good heroes, directors or producers in the '80s. The only film I watched after all those years was my own film.

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.

I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

When I was younger, I used to watch Ohio State and Rutgers a lot. Definitely watching Ohio State and Jim Tressel and Troy Smith and Ted Ginn, definitely watched Rutgers with Ray Rice and Tiquan Underwood, all of those guys.

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.