Quotes About Heroes From Movies

#1. On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Ken Thompson

#2. I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

Chris Carter

#3. Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.

Charles Baxter

#4. You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

Chris Rock

#5. I got very spoiled. Everybody said you will never ever work on such a good movie, you know. I did, because I went on to work on Captain America, which also has a great director, which is Joe Johnston, one of my heroes who designed the old Star Wars movies.

Daniel Simon

#6. Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

Red Ruffing

#7. The forces that we deal with have two sides: one is good and helpful and the other is dark and dangerous. Part of your training is to learn to distinguish between them, and know when to use which. (Nakoma)

Gala.J

#8. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jon Favreau

#9. I've always loved movies and animation. When I was little, I was always pretending to be some alter ego superhero. For years it was Ultraman, ninjas, Spiderman and other cool super heroes.

Ryan Potter

#10. All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

Robert Browning

#11. Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#12. It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

Jimmy Jean-Louis

#13. As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

Amit Kalantri

#14. Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.

Martin O'Malley

#15. I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Brad Bird

#16. In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

Woody Allen

#17. UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.

Steven Horsford

#18. I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#19. Elected presidents are for countries.

William Hague

#20. What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

John Podhoretz

#21. I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

Rain

#22. For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Sean Maguire

#23. Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.

Bruce Springsteen

#24. It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.

Dennis Christopher

#25. Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

John Wayne

#26. I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#27. Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance.

Debra Dean

#28. Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

Johnny Carson

#29. We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

James Mangold

#30. The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

John Zerzan