- Nov 07, 2020
Hero Quotes
On heroes, idols, and who we choose to look up to.
These quotes look at what it means to have a hero, whether that's a musician admired from the audience or a childhood icon like Mickey Mouse who fits several roles at once. Explore more in Inspiration quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
- Harriet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a popular hero in your film, you have to think of what the masses expect from him. You have to portray the hero in such a way that they should adore him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the director has a story, he will go directly to the hero. If I have a big hero in hand today, any big banner or corporate will come to me. But if I say I have a good story, they will ask if I have a hero.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020