I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

People who get OBEs are people like firefighters and lifesavers - these are real-life heroes.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

While we glorify football players for their accomplishments on the field, they are not heroes.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation's heroes have a home to return to at night.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

I have many queer friends who I consider to be heroes of mine, and they feel the same way toward me.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I met two of my movie heroes. I met Tom Hanks, and I met Steven Spielberg. Oh and Quentin Tarantino.

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

I am a Bruce Lee fan. I may be my fans' hero, but even heroes have their heroes. And mine is Bruce Lee.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

I believe the audience likes to see well-defined characters on screen than just larger-than-life heroes.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

I've met so many real heroes, people whose service has given me the life I'm lucky to live on U.S. soil.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I feel that our country's real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.

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