Quotes About Character

My one ambition is to play a hero.

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

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

I think everyone is a hero in their own right.

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.

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

There is a hero built in all of us.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

Heroes aren't perfect.

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

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

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

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

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

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

I never think of myself as a heroine.