T. C. Boyle Quotes

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

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

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

Heroes are not always available.

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

King Arthur was one of my heroes because he was such a marvelous, heroic, courageous, and magnificent person that I had to admire him even though I knew perfectly well that I could never be in any way like that.

I wanted to be Samson or Hercules from the age of six.

I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Call me the author.

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

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.