Quotes About Heroes

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

I had a cordial relationship with all my heroes - some, like Jeetendra or Shatrughan Sinha, are very funny. Amitabh, on the other hand, was more serious, more professional.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

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.

Our athletes are our heroes.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

Growing up my heroes were American motocross riders. I didn't want to be a drummer; I wanted to be a motocross rider.

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

I had both male and female heroes.

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.