My Heroes Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My heroes were all in the theatre.
- Damian Lewis

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
- Joe Mantegna

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

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

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

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'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

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

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