Rod Lurie Quotes

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

It's not just children who need heroes.

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

'Power Rangers' has changed a lot of lives.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

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

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

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

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

My heroes were always soccer players.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

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

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

I try to reach out to my idols.