Best My Hero Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“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.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Tina Fey is one of my heroes.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“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.”

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Author:Andy Partridge

“30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.”

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Author:Cristin Milioti

“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

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Author:Lamorne Morris

“Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.”

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Author:Zoe Kazan

“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”

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Author:Will Hermes

“I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.”

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Author:Cheech Marin

“I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.”

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Author:Rashad Evans

“Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.”

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Author:Chris Pratt

“Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.”

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Author:Robert Longo

“Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.”

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Author:A. E. Housman

“My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.”

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Author:Lea DeLaria

“All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago”

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Author:Larry Hagman

“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.”

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Author:Gail Simone

“I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.”

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Author:Steven Cojocaru

“I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.”

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Author:Miranda Lambert

“Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.”

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

“Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.”

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Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.”

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Book:The View From The Ground

Source: The View From The Ground

“For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.”

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Author:Moby

“My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.”

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Author:Ruth Glick

“My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“My heroes were always soccer players.”

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Author:Ronaldinho

“I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.”

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Author:Louis Sachar

“My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.”

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Author:Walter Mosley

“When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.”

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Author:Enric Sala

“My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“My dad was my hero, my best friend.”

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Author:Dhani Harrison

“Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.”

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Author:Kirk Hammett

“Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.”

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Author:Billie Jean King

“For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.”

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Author:Nikki Sixx

“I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.”

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Author:Joanne Harris

“He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe was the best all-around player. Joe was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.”

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Author:Willie Mays

“Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.”

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Book:The Mind-Body Problem

Source: The Mind-Body Problem

“'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.”

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Author:Lena Dunham

“I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.”

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Author:Mike Royer

“I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

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