Quotes About Hero

The shorter story; No love, no glory; No hero in her skies.

Striker Smith. He's a superhero from the future who travels through

At the age of ten, on Armistice Day, Alex trekked miles from his home in Washington, D.C., to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to attend a ceremony at the grave of the Unknown Soldier. Who was the man being honored? What religion? What race? No one knew. All anybody knew was that he was an American hero. And that was, it seemed, how it should be. This was true brotherhood.

And what, Majesty, did you ask for?" "A noble and gallant sea officer. . . An honorable warrior." Her mouth tightened. "A hero." "Well then, allow me to pretend," he murmured, his fingers inches from those tempting breasts. "But you're a pirate!" "And a good one, too," he added, grinning wolfishly and letting his fingertips slide beneath her shirt.

That sleepless guy wasn't a hero. He was a fool

The hero's journey has three main parts: Departure, Initiation, and Return. The hero hears a call, refuses it at first, and then crosses the threshold into a new world. During Initiation, he faces stiff challenges and stares into the abyss. But along the way—usually with the help of mentors who give the hero a divine gift—he transforms and becomes at one with his new self. Then he returns, becoming the master of two worlds, committed to improving each.

The human beings who appear in the data, survivors or not, are grouped under one machine designated classification: Hero. These damn machines knew us and loved us, even while they were tearing our civilization to shreds.

I'm the hero of my own story, but others tell their stories as well.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.

We try to make our celebrities stand in for the heroes we no longer have, or for those who have been pushed out of our view... Yet the celebrity is usually nothing greater than a more-publicized version of us. In imitating him, in trying to dress like him, talk like him, look like him, think like him, we are simply imitating ourselves.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Earlier, there were only two hairstyles. If the hero had a fringe, he was village bumpkin. If he slicked his hair back, he was an urban sophisticate.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

I prefer a real villain to a false hero.

You can't always play the hero. You have to play the villain.

Without the villain, the hero sits at home on his couch.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.

I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.

I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.

In the '70s and '80s, there was a definite set of roles in a film. There would be a hero, a heroine and a villain.