Hero Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (H) List-
That`s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end
Lise Hand
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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To me, he`s a hero, ... He`s not polite. He`s not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That`s a heroic thin...
Hugh Laurie
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Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn about adoption today.
Bruce Willis
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On Scooby-Doo: "With all the difficulties plaguing the world over the past year, isn`t it about time we had a hero who tells kids it`s okay to be afraid?" "Scooby`s the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn`t cute like Mickey, or smart like Bugs, or fea...
James Gunn
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...if you get a bunch of cynical people making a big-budget Hollywood movie, the irony is it doesn`t work. [referring to his experience with `The Last Action Hero`]
Zak Penn
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(On this acting hero) Gene Wilder is my Marlon Brando. Gene Wilder will break your heart and make you laugh at the same time. And that`s deep. There`s something really profound about what he`s able to do. It`s transcendent. It`s everything. He gives you e...
Ryan Gosling
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[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
James Mason
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I gave my hero a talent I`d love to have. Who wouldn`t want to fly?
J.K. Rowling
Source: imdb.com
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[On playing hero Jack Driscoll in Peter Jackson`s _King Kong_] "I`ve always wanted to do something like King Kong. It`s a phenomenal role that any actor would kill for. I`ve been looking for this kind of iconic leading man guy for years, but they are hard...
Adrien Brody
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[Studios] won`t hire you, even though you screwed the same whores and ate the bullet for it. Yet they pull you aside at a party and say you`re their hero for the things you do. [Variety (August 14, 1997)]
Charlie Sheen
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I don`t believe in Bond as a hero. It`s a load of nonsense. How can you be a spy when any bar you walk into, the bartender says, `Ah, Mr Bond. Shaken, not stirred?` - His explanation for his comical approach to the Bond character.
Roger Moore
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Bret Hart
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I was tired of playing the nice, clean-cut cowboy in "Rawhide" (1959), I wanted something earthier. Something different from the old-fashioned Western. You know: Hero rides in, very stalwart, with white hat, man`s beating a horse, hero jumps off, punches ...
Clint Eastwood
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I was tired of playing the nice, clean-cut cowboy in "Rawhide" (1959), I wanted something earthier. Something different from the old-fashioned Western. You know: Hero rides in, very stalwart, with white hat, man`s beating a horse, hero jumps off, punches ...
Clint Eastwood
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[On his murdered son, Ennis} He was my hero.
Bill Cosby
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[talking about his character in Jackie Brown]: "This is the great noir hero.If Humphrey Bogart or Robert Mitchum were around today, they`d be playing that role."
Robert Forster
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[2/12/04] I don`t care if I`m 5`7" and pretty heavy, weight-wise, in the film [the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy]. I still see myself as Errol Flynn. Even when I was a little boy, playing war games in the back yard, I pictured myself as the hero.
Sean Astin
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[on the part of his career when he played almost exclusively bad guys] The best part is always the heavy. And the meaner and crueler and the worse you are, the more vicious you are as the heavy, the better the hero looks when he whips you. So, the heavy i...
Leslie Nielsen
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Ten, 15 years ago, Sly, Arnold, those guys, were well-built; of course, they had to act and find good scripts, but today action heroes don`t have to be Mr. Muscles. What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All ...
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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If I have a choice between a nice, bland hero or a really interesting, detestable character, I`d rather do the detestable one. Good guys can be pretty boring. I love playing characters who celebrate the power and joy and beauty of greed. As the bad guy, y...
Peter Gallagher
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Those British film certificates explained in full: "Oh, I get it, it`s simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl."
Michael Douglas
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On asked who he would invite to a dinner party he answered: "I`d have to have Jesus Christ there - I`d like to check him out. I`d also have to have [the Italian revolutionary] Garibaldi, because he`s a hero of mine, and I`d invite Shakespeare and King Hen...
Jamie Bamber
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I`m not an action hero anymore, and I think it would be inappropriate for me to compare anything that happens in Hollywood and the entertainment industry to the tragic loss of life on September 11th.
Bruce Willis
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The Hero`s Journey is the most basic story form. All stories and myths are, on some level, a Hero`s Journey. It is almost impossible to relay any kind of story without utilizing some pattern from the structure of a Hero`s Journey. One could simply say, "H...
Crispin Glover
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