Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

Heroes in real life don't wear masks and capes. Sometimes they don't stand out at all. But real heroes can save a life - or many lives - just by answering the call in their heart.

I didn't set out to be a regular hero.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'

Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.

I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?

I feel that Sarkar is a realistic superman in his life.

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.

I prefer being the protagonist.

Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.