“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.” WantShouldWritingYearsMadeProblemActionBoysRolesWatchesHeroPeriodsAction Heroes Author:James Mangold
“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.” MenWaySelfHelpingFoundWinningBoysEconomicSelf HelpHeroOfficeFortuneStrivePortraitsGalleryBourgeoisVigorousRomanticismPrototypePhilistinesUtilitarianismPlutocracy Author:John Carroll
“Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.” LittlesRunningMotherBoysSonPrideHeroIndependenceComplainingConquerEnjoyedRunning AwayMarvelousComplaintsOverwhelmedMasculineSpectacularLittle BoysBravadoBeing Overwhelmed Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.” MenChildrenMatterFightingPerfectBoysHe ManHeroInstinctAggressionAlmost Perfect Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesWarEyeTurnsCoursesFatherGamesGivenBitsBoysHeroAuthenticityEmbarrassedEquipmentLittle BoysHelmetBinocularsCanteen Author:Paul Auster
“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.” WarEnoughLiteratureBoysFoodHeroHeroismPieMy HeroBeing A HeroWar HeroSweets And Desserts Author:E. W. Howe