Heroic Image Quotes

Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.

When you see weakness in a hero, you are doing something to his identity. You take something away from the kids, the next generation; you steal away giving them anything to look up to.

America before the 1960s was a pretty innocent place. We were the Lone Ranger galloping off to the rescue of the needy and the oppressed of the world, and we could get things done.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.