Quotes About Courage

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they're gonna do it.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.

I'm an emotional person, but it is not my helplessness.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

God helps those who fear Him.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

All women should become Hercules!

Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn't that hard.

It's great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You're in it all the way through.

I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It's not what I do.

One brave deed makes no hero.

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

I'm a real-life action hero.