1,474 Quotes About Hero

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

The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

I don't believe in hero worship.