Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

As an adult, my hero is my dog, Mouse. He is so friendly to everyone he meets. He wags his tail and loves everyone, like Jesus!

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

I’m an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that?

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

'Nowhere Man' embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. It's really near and dear to my heart.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.

My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.

My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.

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.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

Initially, kids are attracted to Superman as a hero because he can take care of problems and still appear as friendly as your dad.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

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