We didn't even have a block (call) on. Derek just made a hero play.
We didn't even have a block (call) on. Derek just made a hero play.
I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
These are some of the best people in the country. They do things that they don't get credit for. People would call me a hero because I go out there and sack a quarterback while playing a game, but Monday through Friday, these guys are down here working ... and as far as I'm concerned, they don't get anywhere near enough credit.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
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.
The memory that is the most vivid is of Mark the soldier. Mark left a soldier and returned a hero.
He's a hero of ours. He's how we want to be.
I think, therefore, that the usual scheme is so far followed that the drama represents first the rise of the hero, and then his fall.
You do not want to make a hero out of him. Some of these kids' heroes are not good models.
In terms of the larger union movement, especially folks beyond the New York metro area, there is sort of this patina or the hero effect of now being a labor martyr, a contemporary sort of Mike Quill.
History of Ireland -- lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere -- no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it.
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
I don't view myself as people have described. I don't think of myself as a hero and certainly not as hidden.
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Leonard Bernstein was a true American hero, ... He could do anything. He was a composer, a conductor and a concert pianist.
Rosa Parks is not just a national hero, she is the embodiment of our social and human conscience and the spark that lit the flame of liberty and equality for African Americans and minority groups in this country and around the globe.
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
We are excited to be backing Carlos. For most of us, foosball is a fun pastime but when you see it played at its highest level as Carlos plays it you gain a higher appreciation for the game, ... Now that I'm living in Costa Rica, I can see first-hand how excited people are for Carlos, who took on the best in the world and beat all but one. He's a true local hero.
Jean-Luc is my violin jazz hero, ... So to have him come out and play that tune with us at Telluride was just a freakout.
Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.
My position was, like you say, under review. Don't make him a hero.
Many achievements of the Soviet epoch laid the foundation for modern society. All this should be remembered. The repeal of the Nov. 7 holiday will bring nobody the laurels of a hero.
The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true.
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
You're a hero. I'm sorry, I just can't stop crying.
The passengers and crew are an emblem of America's great glory freedom and patriotism demonstrated at its highest regard, ... Here upon this field of honor, lives were saved and heroes were made.
Movies are the most influential medium in the entire world. They shape our dreams and our hopes, they define our heroes, they often show us how to live. They can be especially influential to the young.
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.
I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
He's a natural-born leader. So we brought him in knowing he can think, knowing he can make plays. But he's one of those unsung heroes. He finishes checks, he blocks shots. He does a lot of the dirty work.
It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
This mixes patriotism, heroism and sex appeal. That covers a lot of bases. Of course some ladies would rather be a sexy Statue of Liberty.
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.
Last time here, I was the biggest goat. Today, I get to be the hero.
There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.
It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
You love us when we're heroes, home on leave,
Or wounded in a mentionable place.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo.
It's generally popular with the public to think of Bob Dylan as the '60s folk hero,
The United States will always honor and never forsake its fallen heroes. We will not abandon their families.
Nothing against Ricky. He's a hero to a lot of people, me included. He's an icon to a lot of us, too. ... Having Mark in there -- where you felt like you could talk and be red a redneck -- it freed us up a whole lot to sing and play the way we normally do on stage.
When five former first ladies and Barbara Bush walked across the courtyard of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ... someone watching interrupted the hush and whispered, 'There are the real heroes.'
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