You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick.
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.
Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.
I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Samantha Powell: Whatever had or hadn't happened in the past, I was gonna be the hero of my own story.
On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.
Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.
Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.
Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Walt Kowalski: I'm no hero. I was just trying to get that babbling gook off my lawn!
Bob: You know I'm retired from hero work. Edna: As am I, Robert, yet here we are.
Oddball: Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can't lose! You're on!
