Quotes About Heroes

I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

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'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

I've actually met quite a few of my heroes from the past.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

I love movies, so getting to be in the conversation and meet some of my heroes has been so fun. It's just the most fun thing ever.

Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.

Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.

I don't differentiate a film as off-beat or commercial, because I just don't understand the difference. 'Naanum Rowdy Thaan,' for example, wasn't written for me. It came to me by chance after two or three other heroes turned it down. I agreed to do the role, as I liked the script immensely.

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

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.

Putting any show on television is a challenge. I've been very lucky to work with incredible showrunners on 'Smallville' and 'Lost' and 'Heroes.' I hope to bring a lot of those lessons to Marvel live television.

Classically, throughout all of our history, the movies in times of crisis have turned to military figures as heroes, because they are the guardians of our nation.

It's hard to not act like a fan when you're in these scenes with your heroes, but you can't do that because you respect everybody so much.

I believe the audience likes to see well-defined characters on screen than just larger-than-life heroes.

As was shown in 'Soorma,' for me, my father and brother have been my heroes.

Brands like RMS Beauty and Kat Burki are my skincare heroes.

The really good doctors out there are real-life heroes. Playing one on TV is a cheaper alternative and certainly satisfies what is left of my medical ambitions.