Wanted Hero Quotes

#1. Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all.

Jaime Buckley

#2. But damn, how I wanted, just for once in my godforsaken life, to be the hero, the knight in shining armor, the guy she deserved to have.

Rachel Van Dyken

#3. ...hero or not, he wanted to hold her forever and not let go.

Heidi Glick

#4. Until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again.

Jaime Buckley

#5. My only mission became to save her. I wanted to be the very person I grew up hating. I wanted to be her hero.

B.B. Reid

#6. The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

Randeep Hooda

#7. It's called a repository spell. Makes something bigger on the inside than on the outside. Works great for bags, barrels, hats, just about anything really, even a 1963 police box.

Chuck

#8. I just realized that I need to be a director for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to - when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.

Quentin Tarantino

#9. The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

John Wozniak

#10. When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

Virginia Madsen

#11. I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.

Joey Comeau

#12. I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

Dan McCurrigan

#13. Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.

Amit Kalantri

#14. I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.

Joey Lawrence

#15. Everyone at Bellingham would know me, know who I was, by dinner. Would they consider me the hero or the fuckup? All I had wanted was to be anonymous.

Amber Dermont

#16. A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.

Meg Cabot

#17. I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

Gene Luen Yang

#18. My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

Shakira

#19. My father wanted us to be inspired by our great hero, but in a manner fit for our times - with pens, not swords. Just as Khattak had wanted the Pashtuns to unite against a foreign enemy, so we needed to unite against ignorance.

Malala Yousafzai

#20. Handsome hero wanted.
Brave in the face of certain danger.
Must be willing to get naked with other species.
At least six-inch penis required.
Fee is negotiable.

James Cox

#21. Because first and foremost, Izzy was marrying Eden Gillman because he wanted her to keep on smiling at him, the way she was smiling at him right now.
He wanted to be her hero.

Suzanne Brockmann

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

Colleen Atwood

#23. When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

John F. Kennedy

#24. When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

David Alan Grier

#25. When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?

Zach Braff

#26. He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him inside her visions. Gods, he wanted to rescue her. After all, she had rescued him; she had become his heroine a long time ago, before his death became imminent.

Madison Thorne Grey

#27. It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

Cole Hauser

#28. This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff)

Jami Gold

#29. My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.

Amit Kalantri

#30. We will travel light and fast to the capitol for the ritual where I will have the privilege of delivering the final blow, for this act holds my loathing, my pain, my hatred ... and my revenge.

Jaime Buckley

#31. Time often sheds light on curious circumstances.
Something we thought was a crazy miscalculation may, in fact, turn out to be the key component to the winning play.

Jaime Buckley

#32. I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

Gal Gadot

#33. I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.

Michael Angelo Batio

#34. Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me ... I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.

Malcolm X

#35. Hercules was a bitter, selfish jerk. He'd hurt too many people, and he wanted to keep on hurting them. Maybe he'd had some bad breaks. Maybe the gods had kicked him around. But that didn't excuse it. A hero couldn't control the gods, but he should be able to control himself.

Rick Riordan

#36. I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

Dave Brubeck

#37. I'm not the hero who will always save the day, don't always wear a white hat, don't always know the way. I may not even be the dream you wanted to come true, but I'll always be the man in love with you.

George Strait

#38. What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.

James A. Baldwin

#39. My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

Tim Curry

#40. Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#41. We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn't. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism?

Greg Rucka

#42. I'm not even ready to be fairly bruised," he complained out loud, "I don't want to be killed dead.

Jaime Buckley

#43. Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Lev Grossman

#44. I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

Bas Rutten

#45. I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.

Harvey Pekar

#46. A finely tuned spike of pain speared through his skull, signalling a detectable breach in his conditioning. He didn't want to stop his decent into chaos. What he wanted was to hurt the men who'd dared look at her.

Nalini Singh

#47. 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.

Dolph Lundgren

#48. My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.

Scott Herman

#49. But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

Perry Moore

#50. I wanted to be a hero, but there aren't any heroes out here, are there?

Kit Rocha

#51. The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured.

Gene Luen Yang

#52. I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

James McAvoy

#53. I wanted him to be ruthless, I wanted him to be fearless, I wanted him to take the biggest risk possible for me and be a hero.

Angela Richardson

#54. Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

Levon Helm

#55. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

Jim Woodring

#56. Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!

Eugene O'Neill

#57. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Lev Grossman

#58. He looked like every hero in every fairy tale I'd ever dreamed come to life. And, God, I wanted to believe in heroes again. But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero.

Mia Sheridan

#59. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.

If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.

G.S. Jennsen

#60. When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc.

Scott Herman

#61. I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

Ridley Scott

#62. A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

Kieran Bew

#63. I always wanted to be a hero
to sacrifice my life in a big way one time
and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.

Sally Clarkson

#64. I didn't want to be a victim, some princess locked away in a tower, waiting to be saved. I wanted to be the hero of my story; I didn't need to be saved. At least I didn't want to be.

John Goode

#65. Don't call her Tally in front of Clay", Dorian said, thinking of the small human female who loved Clay so desperately. "He's a little territorial."
Lucas's eyes flicked to Ashaya. "So are you."
Dorian wanted to bare his teeth, warn Lucas off against interfering. "Yeah, I am.

Nalini Singh

#66. My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

David Soul

#67. I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Richard Dreyfuss

#68. I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

Willie Mays

#69. I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who's too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi

Ai Yazawa

#70. I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Maxwell Caulfield

#71. Didn't at least one of them miss when they shot at you?' [Sumi said to Dancer][...] 'Yeah, I always wanted to be that hero in a movie where no one can shoot straight except me. Never happens. I seem to always walk into the school of award-winning sharpshooters.' [Dancer replied.]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#72. I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.

Phillip Phillips

#73. I brought my daughter today because I wanted her to know what a hero was," the woman said, holding the hand of a little girl. "And I wanted her to know girls could be heroes, too.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#74. I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

John Assaraf

#75. Because someday, when your life slows down, you're going to look at all the great things you've done and the people you've touched and you might go down as a hero. But no one would have ever wanted your life. Because you'll be alone.

Katie Kacvinsky

#76. From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

Rain

#77. In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business - and I wanted to try to reflect that.

John Green

#78. I am an actor who turned hero at age 32, after many years of struggle. I wanted to break the stereotype that only good-looking men with a good complexion, height and physique can be heroes, which I have managed to do.

Duniya Vijay

#79. I never asked to be the world's hero. All I ever wanted was to be yours.

Nicole Williams

#80. We will forever be vulnerable to the weaknesses in our own hearts and our selfish desires.

Jaime Buckley

#81. So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.

Cornelia Funke

#82. My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

Dick Vitale

#83. He fought the men and he slayed the monsters and he bested the gods, and at last the hero, having conquered all, earned the thing that he wanted most. To go home.

Victoria Schwab