Quotes About Heroism

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

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

One brave deed makes no hero.

I'm a real-life action hero.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

You're going to be the goat and you have to learn to accept it. When you're the hero, you're going to have to learn to deal with that too.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

I'm not a hero. The military is.

Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I just wanted to be an action hero! Then I grew up, and my interests were different.

Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.

When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

Musicians - we're not doctors. We're not saving people's lives. We're not going out and changing the world. We're not coming up with cancer cures. We're not any of that. They're the real heroes of the world.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.