If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

“Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero, the gentleman, the knight, the mystic. About all we have left is the well-adjusted man without problems, a very pale and doubtful substitute.”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

“As we get older, you realize that the real heroes in our lives are often the closest people in your life. Be present and appreciative.”

Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."

“The real Hero is one who knows how to rise when he falls down.”

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

"Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy"

"As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound."