Best Action Heroes Quotes

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Women can’t be afraid to look like action heroes. It’s not always pretty, but when it’s on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I’m a character actor.

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

I’m trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

I would love to play more nerd roles, as well as action hero roles.

I want to play an action hero. I’m ready for roles that totally aren’t me.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

I don’t know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

It’s only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There’s plenty of cool comics with female characters… But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you can’t, it doesn’t matter how skilful you are.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

I mean there’s still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

When I started studying acting in New York, I didn’t plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn’t get out.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn’t set out to be an action hero.

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don’t love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

I don’t consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else’s.

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro Almodóvar, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it’s not the only thing that I do.