True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero and leader.

Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship.

And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It’s much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It’s an ongoing process to turn the tide.

Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. I’m just a cyclist.

I think it’s doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there’s a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it’s unrealistic.

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

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon… They become our legendary heroes.

Well, I don’t play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

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

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

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that’s what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

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.

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don’t think I’d be very good at playing one.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

I didn’t picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid – I wasn’t – but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it’s pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and I’m excited to be part of it. In terms of Heroes it’s been such an amazing journey on that show. I love working on it and at this point I know I’m coming to Asia and some of the other cast are going to Europe for the world tour to release the DVD.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.