Hero Quotes

“Cowboys are the only heroes America has ever had.”

“Lou Reed is my hero because he's a lazy bastard.”

“You should never meet your heroes. It's always a disappointment.”

“A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might want to do on your own.”

“I think the public is sick and tired of the anti-hero.”

“Since I was seventeen, I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.”

“For the hero, the dragon is not some exterior monster, but his own inner darkness.”

“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”

“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.”

“There are no hundred-percent heroes.”

“Ray Charles was my idol.”

“Honoring our veterans includes honoring our service members and honoring our first responders. They are all heroes.”

“Orson Welles was my hero. He was a great artist, a great man.”

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

“Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.”

“My dad 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.”

“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

“The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.”

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

“I think we all have a hero in our lives and our hero is the person who we look up to and we're inspired by.”