My Hero Quotes

Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough already, so I'd have some rich relation leave you a fortune unexpectedly; then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and como home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.
- Louisa May Alcott

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
- Lloyd Alexander

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.
- Jane Austen

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
- Jane Austen

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
- Adam Baldwin

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
- Jeanmichel Basquiat

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
- Peter Berg

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
- Haruki Murakami

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
- Brad Bird

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
- Orlando Bloom

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

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.
- Carter Burwell

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinchingthey are your family. And they were my heroes.
- Jim Butcher

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
- Steven Cojocaru

My Dad is my hero.
- Harry Connick Jr

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
- Harry Connick Jr

I don't know what to saw about a man who calls a perfectly adorable three-year old a fucker, but "my hero" comes to mind.
- Kelly Corrigan

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
- Daniel Craig

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

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
- Michael Jordan

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.
- Michael Cunningham

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
- Leonardo Dicaprio

Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.
- Marcel Dionne

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.
- Regina Doman

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
- Richard Donner

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
- George Eads

Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul McCartney were inducted. We were at the bar, and Bruce was talking to Paul, and he turned to me and said, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Paul McCartney!' I thought, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Bruce Springsteen, who's talking to Paul McCartney!
- Melissa Etheridge

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.
- Neil Finn

He was everything I needed because his entire character had been molded by my deepest wants and desires. He was my rock when I cried, my playmate when I laughed, and my hero when I needed to imagine that one existed for me.
- Richelle E Goodrich

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
- David Alan Grier

Once again, my hero. And here I'm supposed to be the one saving him.
- Cynthia Hand

Are you making fun of my hero complex?'
Yeah.
- Linda Howard

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.
- John Hughes

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.
- Bindi Irwin

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
- Kazuo Ishiguro

Ezekiel and his fellow prophets have become my heroes. They were fearless. They literalized metaphors. They turned their lives into protest pieces. They proved that, in the name of truth, sometimes you can't be afraid to take a left turn from polite society and look absurd.
- A J Jacobs

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.
- Derek Jeter

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

My hero is the mayor in Jaws. He's a fantastic guy, and he keeps the beaches open, if you remember, even after it's demonstrated that his constituents have been eaten by this killer fish. Of course, he was proved catastrophically wrong in his judgment, but his instincts were right.'
Boris Johnson is the mayor of London.
Taken from Time Magazine interview: June 25, 2012; page 76.
- Boris Johnson

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
- June Jordan

My hero's hero is not necessarily my hero, unless my clone's hero is my clone's clone.
- Jarod Kintz

I saw my hero. He was standing at the urinal next to mine. I didn't know what to say, so I said, "How's it hanging?" He replied, "Lower than yours." Ha! That John Holmes is one funny guy.
- Jarod Kintz

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
- Judith Krantz

I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.
- Jim Lampley

My heroes were all in the theatre.
- Damian Lewis

Oh, Draven. You're my hero too! If not for you, that mean old boar would have eaten me alive. (Simon)
Get off me, you nimble-pated gelding. (Draven)
- Kinley Macgregor

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.
- Gregory Maguire

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
- Joe Mantegna

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
- Walter Mosley

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.
- Mike Myers

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.
- Craig T Nelson

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
- Wayne Newton

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
- Camille Paglia

My hero finally found me in that too-high tower, rescued me from it's cold walls, set me down among free men and bolted.
Freedom, with all it's possibilities, just feels cold and lonely. I want to go back to my tower. I need those walls. I need the protection.
The walls were always my true plus-one.
- Liza Palmer

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
- Orhan Pamuk

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.
- Andy Partridge

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.
- Barry Pepper

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.
- Natalie Portman

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
- Victoria Pratt

Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.
- Jennifer Rardin

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
- David Remnick

but you'll always be my hero
even though you've lost your mind
Now there's gravel in our voices
glass is shattered from the fight
in this tug of war, you'll always win
even when I'm right
'cause you feed me fables from your hand
with violent words and empty threats
- Rihanna

On the first page of our story
The future seemed so bright
Then this thing turned out so evil
I don't know why I'm still surprised
Even angels have their wicked schemes
And you take that to new extremes
But you'll always be my hero
Even though you've lost your mind
- Rihanna

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.
- Nora Roberts

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
- Fred Rogers

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
- Gavin Rossdale

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.
- Tupac Shakur

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
- Robert Sheckley

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
- Sidney Sheldon

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
- Sidney Sheldon

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
- Michelle Shocked

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

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
- David Soul

The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.
- Jerry Stahl

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.
- Jerry Stahl

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
- Patrick Stewart

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
- Andrew Vachss

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.
- Connie Willis

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
- Robert Wyatt

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
- Warren Zevon