My Hero Quotes - Page 3

• I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

  George Eads

  Hero, Grandmother, Aunt

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• I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Motivation, Hero, Opportunity

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• I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Religious, Philosophical

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.11, Modern Library

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• Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.

  Zach Braff

  Hero, Ideas, Race

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• My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

  Robert Wyatt

  Hero, People, Firefighter

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• So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

  Neil Finn

  Hero, Thinking, Stranger

  "New Zealand's Neil Finn: 'I'm a lifer" By Ayesha Lawrence, www.cnn.com. March 4, 2004.

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• 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

  Father, Hero, Men

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• I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Hero, Sight

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• I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

  Orlando Bloom

  Inspiring, Hero, Careers

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• I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

  Young Jeezy

  Hero, Ambition, Thinking

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

  Brad Bird

  Hero, Firefighter, Television

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• I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

  Alanis Morissette

  Uncles, Husband, Hero

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Hero, Boys

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• I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

  Andy Partridge

  Football, Hero, Scotland

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• Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.

  Justin Bartha

  Hero, Fans, Mia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Hero, Kids

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• I spent my entire experience with Gary on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time on The Dark Knight Rises I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.

  Tom Hardy

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  "Tom Hardy Describes Showdown With Gary Oldman In 'The Dark Knight Rises'". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Hero, People, Giving

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• My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

  Agnes de Mille

  Hero, Heroines, Knows

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• Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

  Connie Willis

  Love, Art, Hero

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• One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

  Wayne Newton

  Inspiration, Hero, Night

  Wayne Newton, Dick Maurice (1991). “Once Before I Go”, Avon Books

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• Johnny Unitas was my hero.

  Joe Namath

  Hero

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• I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

  Mike Myers

  Hero, Thinking, Actors

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• No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

  Martial

  Hero, Winning, Men

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

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