Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. — Gerard Way
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo
The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act. — Jackie Chan
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. — Kevin Costner
Heroes come and go, but legends are forever. — Kobe Bryant
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action. — Jason Statham
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. — Sylvester Stallone
True heros are made of hard work and integrity. — Hope Solo
These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They're highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It's something that impressed me every day. — Chris Hemsworth
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. — Gale Sayers
Short Action Heroes Quotes
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes. — Yiddish Proverbs
My heroes were always soccer players. — Ronaldinho
I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them. — Akshay Kumar
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. — Jose Marti
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. — Babe Ruth
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. — Bernard Malamud
Action Heroes Image Quotes
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
Action Hero Quotes
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. — Daniel Boone
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions. — Sidney Sheldon
Be the hero in your own movie. Pretend that your life was a movie and it started now, what would the hero do? What would the person that you respect do? What would the person that you admire and inspire you do? Do that. — Joe Rogan
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. — Victor Hugo
In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today. — Colleen Atwood
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. — Patricia Hill Collins
Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. — Bradley Whitford
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. — Edward Abbey
We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice. — Tom Hiddleston
Heroes Quotes
It is so easy to break down and destroy.
The heroes are those who make peace and
build. — Nelson Mandela
The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars. — Huey Newton
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. — Plato
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free. — Assata Shakur
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. — Nina Simone
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. — Cus D'Amato
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period. — Prince Charles
Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not! — Randy Orton
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Action Movie Quotes
Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world. — Kim Dotcom
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie. I want to play, like, the Joker or something like that. — Jake Paul
Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, but what you do consistently.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. — Sylvester Stallone
I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie. — Uwe Boll
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale. — Harrison Ford
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip. — Tom Berenger
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. — Ethan Hawke
In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies. — Akira Toriyama
Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American. — Renny Harlin
Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. — Akira Toriyama
Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the Arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing. — Thomas Ian Griffith
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. — Theodore Bikel
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible. — Steven Seagal
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. — Mario Puzo
I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it. — Stana Katic
Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers. — Dale Evans
When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium. — James Wan
Superhero Quotes
Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads. — Boonaa Mohammed
We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. — Carol S. Dweck
Aspire to be a superhero. Not a normal person with a bigger house and nicer car. — Andrew Tate
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. — Marc Brown
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. — Christian Bale
I love Bane. I love the Joker. I love Batman. — Jake Paul
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. — Christopher Nolan
You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle. — Timothy Dalton
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be. — Grant Morrison
I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy. — Robert Kirkman
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began. — Soren Kierkegaard
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she. — Anton Chekhov
Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble. — Bradley Whitford
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. — Rumi
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. — Henry Miller
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. — Dolph Lundgren
I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead
I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies. — Walter Hill
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. — Thomas Perry
The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger. — Sergei Polunin
I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun. — Laila Ali
I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero. — Pooch Hall
In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero. — Chow Yun-Fat
Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are. — Victoria Pratt
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience. — Victoria Pratt
We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero. — Jan de Bont
It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade. — Joss Whedon
Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action. — Daniel Simon
It's a fun world to exist in, and I relish doing those movies as much as I do the smaller ones. They're always immense fun. I don't know if I am - unless we do a Benji film, I don't think I am an action hero really. — Simon Pegg
I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn't set out to be an action hero. — Chris Hemsworth
You're a disease. And I'm the cure. — Sylvester Stallone
Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea. — Rick Riordan
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. — Edward Abbey
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. — Zach Anner
Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor. — Aaron Paul
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach. — Adam Baldwin
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces — Stefan Zweig
If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world! And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time. — Rev. Michael Burry
I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.' — Melissa George
I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me. — Kirsten Dunst
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts. — Jean Claude Van Damme
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