That first meeting – the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love – is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you’ve won yourself readers. – Sarah MacLean
All I care about is providing and living every day. I don’t care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero. – Tyson Fury
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
I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors. – Sharon Lawrence
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero. – Thomas Frank
Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day. – Tom Brady
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration. – Wayne Newton
That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, ‘The Godfather,’ is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord’s youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father’s empire. – Steve Erickson
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. – Yukihiro Matsumoto
I don’t hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable – and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example – I do value their counsel. – Simon Winchester
Kurosawa is my hero, and I’ve taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and ‘Rashomon’ is, I think, his second greatest film after ‘Ikiru.’ – Scott Derrickson
In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started. – Sanaa Lathan
From a gameplay standpoint, I’ve said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that’s really what I’m interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are. – Warren Spector
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? – Solomon Short
I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it. – Verne Troyer
I don’t want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal. – Tom Shadyac
I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it’s pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you’re most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero. – Scott Snyder
It’s true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write ‘And they lived happily ever after’ before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper. – Teresa Medeiros
Dizzee’s just my childhood hero. He’s definitely the inspiration. He’s got himself to a very good place. He’s defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn’t just a one-album-type situation. You’ve got to take your hat off to somebody like that. – Tinie Tempah
You gotta learn that if you’re gonna take the last shot of the game, it’s either gonna go in, or it’s not gonna go in, and you’re either gonna be the hero or the goat. – Tom Heinsohn
As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero. – Terence Lewis
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. – Umberto Eco