Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. – John Updike
I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I’m so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he’s so nervous to meet my dad. It’s a head spin. – Jakob Dylan
In most shows, there’s usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy. – Jill Soloway
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. – Jane Leavy
Heroes aren’t born, they’ re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero. – James Belushi
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. – James D. Watson
One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues’ gallery. Often times they’re as famous – if not more infamous – than our heroes. – Jim Lee
I couldn’t say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes. – John Lewis
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. – John Hughes
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When I wrote ‘We Can Be Heroes,’ I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that. – Chris Lilley
I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook. – Adam Schlesinger
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool. – Adam Brody
My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I’m sort of ridiculous. – Ben Foster
Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed. – Bob Riley
I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers – he’s one of my heroes. Al Green, too. – Adam Levine
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. – Bono
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it’s pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. – Anthony Minghella