“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.” TryingActionWantedPainFeltActingStudyPlansNew YorkHeroNeededAction Heroes Author:Dolph Lundgren
“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.” KnowsTryingBigsBrainBreakSawsFootballHeroMetsBeatsEnglandStudiosDrunkScotlandMy HeroRefrigeratorsFootball Match Author:Andy Partridge
“I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.” MenWantTryingKindHelpingHomeKidsHateWishEnjoyHeroHarderHeroismHate MeHouseworkStay At HomeDon't Hate Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.” TryingRememberWalksHeroParksHidingStrandedBackstreet Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.” PeopleKnowsWayWantTryingYearsLongIdeasOpportunityFailingProductsHeroArgumentAdvertisingLong AgoPremisesBelievableWhen All Else FailsDisingenuous Author:Errol Morris
“Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.” TryingUseForceVirtueAtheismHeroDestructionMetaphorJewPositive AtheismProfessionBarsIrrational Author:Florence King
“I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingEnoughGenerationsHeroLiarsMentorSpontaneousTribute Author:John Leguizamo
“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.” PeopleTryingLooksEnoughStepsCareersBreakFailingRiskBrokenHeroBallsFortunateSomething NewBowie Author:Trent Reznor
“I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.” ThinkingShouldTryingFirstsMovingArtistHeroNotesEmulateGood ArtGood Artist Author:Patrick Stump
“For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.” TryingMadeInspirationEffectsHeroMy Hero Author:Moby
“You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.” TryingTearsHeroUniversalMidstScreamPanicAudacityComposure Author:Lidiya Ginzburg
“The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.” TryingRealStoriesDarkPerfectHeroEmsObsessiveLarger Than LifeWarts Author:Frank Miller
“I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.” TryingMayFilmCertainRolesAudienceTypeHeroAdultsTransitionDemographics Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.” WayTryingWellsSometimesDoneStoriesHappensInterestingSacrificeJourneyHeroHeroicWorthwhileQuestsGood StoryAnti Hero Author:Keanu Reeves
“What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.” MenWantTryingHumansStoriesBlackTermWhiteAudienceBrotherHeroBandMythScreensBlack And White Author:Tom Hanks
“I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet. I love doing them, but sometimes you wanna completely try something different and create something unique and get lost in it a bit because it's completely far away from me.” TryingDifferentSometimesDoneLostBitsRolesPlanetsHeroUniqueSavingFar Away Author:Sam Worthington
“We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.” WorldTryingCharacterStoriesEyeDealsEventsHeroAffectionVillain Author:George R. R. Martin
“The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance” TryingReasonDifficultHeroBalanceHappeningsRootsPropertyMonstersProtagonists Author:Joss Whedon
“A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.” PeopleKnowsTryingWarMomentsFactsSeemsMightExistenceHeroDiseaseConquerSomedayLastingRebelKeep Trying Author:Jim Morrison
“Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.” WayWantFeelsTryingLittlesStoriesHomeArtistBitsResponsibilityCreativeHeroElementsComfortableProjectsLittle BitMusic IsSuitsSincerePlasticPhonyComplementClip Author:Adria Petty
“My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.” PeopleTryingFirstsHardHeroMy HeroGood LivingFamily First Author:Dale Murphy
“Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.” TryingPlayGamesHero Author:Carlos Gonzalez
“So each of the commercials- basically it's an action movie cliché. "Bus" is very much inspired by Speed obviously, where you have a high-jacked out of control bus, and you have heroes who are trying to jump from a moving vehicle to the bus and they just can't do it because the moving vehicle can't get close enough, because all these VW cars have this distancing technology, which is really fantastic.” TryingEnoughActionMovingTechnologyCarHeroInspiredSpeedFantasticBusVehicleAction Movie Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.” PeopleWantGivingTryingYearsI CanPlayDesireGamesRecordsEnvironmentHeroLuckyAvailableDecentReasonableSpoilDeliveringGood Years Author:Warren Buffett
“War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.” MenTryingLooksMeanLittlesWarSecretCenturyHeroDirtyCombat21st Century Author:Kathryn Bigelow
“Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?” PeopleTryingLooksKindGuyCertainAmountHeroSellsWineShoesSellingBroadsBottlesFunny ThingsBlazers Author:Joe Bastianich
“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.” MenTryingTwoHappensSongCausesFiveWrittenMinutesHavensHeroCallingAngelThirdsRuinsPianoOld ManBitesFive Minutes Author:Francis Dunnery
“The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.” PeopleTryingMatterSongFateHeroBlowKeep TryingCoping Book:Oathblood Source: Oathblood
“(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.” KnowsGivingTryingKindGuyMistakeHeroPerformancesIronRealisticHam Book:Your Movie Sucks Source: Your Movie Sucks
“My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.” PeopleTryingLongHelpingHandsYoungFightingMinesHeroGunWoodsBombsGrandmotherSurvivorHolocaustNaziMy GrandmotherPartisansHolocaust Survivor Author:Margaret D. Klein
“By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them. I discovered heroes like Roth, King, Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, TC Boyle, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris. These people weren't trying to "rebel against the literary establishment." They were trying to write great, high-quality books that were as entertaining and moving as possible.” PeopleWritingTryingBookWantedMovingReadingQualityCollegeKingsHeroRebelEstablishmentReading BooksEntertainingBeing CoolHigh QualityGaiman Author:Simon Rich
“Greatest American Hero, I really dug that as a kid, because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.” KnowsTryingKindI CanCharacterKidsGuyGivenHeroRelateSurroundingsAlienationThat GuyAmerican Hero Author:Rhys Darby
“My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.” TryingHeroBeastGrandmotherMy GrandmotherMockMy HeroEpitome Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealStatesTodayUsedEasyUnitedCareersUnited StatesMediaHeroVictoryTraditionOppositesProfoundJournalismJournalistScoreBobStatus QuoScandalWatergateReal HeroesInvestigative Journalism Author:Marianne Williamson
“We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.” TryingLightTogetherRememberSongPrayingHeroShiningNarrativeBiblicalRemindingPraying Together Author:Shane Claiborne
“I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.” PeopleThinkingTryingHeartMightAmericaYoungWinningTermChanceRightsImpossibleGenerationsParticularHeroMembersTwentiesMajorityDeterminedCivil RightsBarackOppositionOfferingTeensNaiveVisionariesPragmatismIdealisticFerocityYoung GenerationGeneration Y Author:Van Jones
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“When I was a kid, I thought I would be an action-movie hero. I was like, "They're gonna be able to CGI my legs by that point." And then I realized that it was probably better if I stayed a little closer to who I actually am rather than trying to be Bruce Willis.” IfsTryingLittlesWould BeKidsAbleActionHeroLegsI RealizedAction MovieCgi Author:Zach Anner
“Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics." Do you know what a MacGuffin is? "'In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants,' Ace writes." So in the Maltese Falcon, for example, the hero wants the Maltese Falcon, but there's always somebody trying to stop the hero from getting what he wants.” KnowsWantWritingTryingBookExampleHeroPostsDo You KnowAmerican PoliticsBlogsJonahAcesFalcon Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's just, "Hey,[Barack] Obama's the hero, and he wants Obamacare," and so the coverage is totally devoted to whether or not Obama's gonna get it. Now, in that scenario, who are the villains?Well, your good old, reliable Republicans are the villains, and they are always portrayed as the people trying to deny our beloved hero what he wants.” PeopleWantTryingWellsHeroRepublicanDenyHeyBarackBelovedVillainDevotedScenariosObamacareCoverage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who became the villains? What Trump wanted became the story. "Will he get it? Will Trump get to 1,237?" Did not Ted Cruz become a villain in the middle of this by virtue of trying to stop the hero by getting delegates in all of the state conventions?” WantTryingStatesStoriesWantedVirtueMiddleTrumpHeroRepublicanVillainConventionsSupporterNominationsCruzDelegates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.” MenWayTryingYearsWellsMadeStillsSelfStatesSeemsGovernmentPoliticalCultureRaceMoralCareersIssuesHonestFiguresHeroPoliticianEssentialsElementsHundredRaisesFiftyOur SocietyAmerican HistoryFederal GovernmentFrontiersAmerican CultureIconicAmerican LifeSelf MadeAbeSelf Made Man Author:Eric Foner
“You know, very often, if you look at the kinds of communications that they're getting in an ISIS recruiting video, the videos that, you know, that one hears of as radicalizing them, these are like action movies. And so in the sense, it's that by closing off the idea that young Muslims and particularly young Muslim men can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenTryingLooksKindIdeasActionYoungChanceCommunicationHeroIncreaseVideoClosingIsisAction MovieCounterproductiveAmerican HeroClosing Off Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts of themselves - the character has to be likeable, has to be fuckable, has to be redemptive on all fronts. When you're playing a character that's just inherently destructive or messed up, you're given this beautiful permission to try things. There's a license to fail.” FeelsTryingCharacterBeautifulActorsGivenDarkFailingFrontsHeroHollywoodDetermineDestructivePermissionLicenseMessed UpLikeable Author:Jordan Gavaris
“Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches, but every year now they're looking for that person. If you know they're looking for it, then you could just try to insert yourself into that position, and it's much easier than if you're in a bigger town.” TryingKindHeroSmall TownInsert Author:Amy Miller
“That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.” TryingKindHeroWesternHip HopVillainOwn Business Author:Mike Colter
“I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.” PeopleThinkingTryingGuyEvilFailingHeroSuperheroGood Guy Author:Javier Bardem
“The only thing I have to say to people - try being the hero of your own world one day. Don't spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex. You should at one point become the hero of your own world.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingHeroOne Day Author:Billy West
“It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentHateCultureEnjoyLeaderHeroArgumentTraditionI HateWesternChineseRevolutionaryAbandonEmperorUnderdog Author:Robert Wyatt