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Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero
I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.
I would definitely like to be a slightly aging action hero with a smart mouth and have a little bit of fun.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.
He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.
When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.
Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.
It's not that I don't like starring as the hero, it's more of a mental block that prevents me from doing so.
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
I don't want to play the lead and look like a hero. I am open to do character roles; what is the harm in it?
It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.
The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.
I have two dogs. If I had retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet, the dogs are pretty much the same thing.
Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
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.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.
I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it.
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.
It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.