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Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!
I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]
My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.
One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity that I have.
The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.
I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match...so...I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.
I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
Merlin is the unsung hero who is often responsible for things turning out positively, but rarely gets credit for that.
She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.
In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.
Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?
I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.
Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.
Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!
My father is my hero, my mother is a saint, and I want to fill those shoes and I want to be a father for somebody else.
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.
I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.
When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.