Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size.
It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.
I always liked 'The Last American Hero,' the one about Junior Johnson with Jeff Bridges in it.
A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.
There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.
I'm not going to put my team in any situation where I go 0-for-5 because I want to play and be a hero.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
While there is a typical introduction song for the hero, there are songs that represent each phase of the characters' journey.
In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.
I'm indeed excited to be termed as a hero who can command commercial respect in two languages at the same time.
My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.
If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
Alex Higgins was my hero, so to play in Belfast, at the superb Waterfront Hall, is very special to me.
The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
Despite our hard work and the number of hours we put in, content is the hero of every show.
It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.
Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
It should be easily admitted that every hero is only as great as the villain that he prevails over.
My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
Actually, being a hero is not easy. You have to dance around trees, not to mention all the odd and unnatural things you have to do.
In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.
As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero.
If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.
I tried to play 'Barracuda' on 'Guitar Hero,' and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it's really counterintuitive.
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
What I thankfully realised in time is that just being a commercial hero means the market is limited.
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
When we think good thoughts, we feel good. When we feel good, we make good choices. When we feel good and make good choices, we draw more good experiences into our lives. It really is that simple … and elegant … and true.
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role.
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.
For me, the story must be the hero of the film. The screen space or the length of my role does not matter.
I think the impact I make is to inspire Filipino female athletes that they can do it as well... A Filipina can be a sports hero.
In the '70s and '80s, there was a definite set of roles in a film. There would be a hero, a heroine and a villain.
The hero's journey is, you know, one of the oldest story arcs that we have. And it's one, I think, that's especially projected onto cancer patients.
I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.
When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
I only sign up to play the hero when I am that sure of the script, which, believe it or not, comes by rarely.
Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.
Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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