I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. – Kelly Sue DeConnick
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. – Katharine Lee Bates
The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy… but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican. – Mike Pence
Growing up, I’d watch ‘Rambo’ or ‘Commando,’ and so many action heroes were these huge guys with six-pack abs. It almost became a novelty. – Lucas Till
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. – Len G. Murray
King Arthur was one of my heroes – I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle’s cane for the sword Excalibur. – Lloyd Alexander
How do you make something the same but different? That’s the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for ‘Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes.’ I wanted it to have many similarities to ‘Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods,’ but I knew they couldn’t be too similar. – John Rocco
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. – Jerry Robinson
I love the Victoria’s Secret Angels. They’re sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes. – Jennifer Love Hewitt
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. – Ken Thompson
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them. – John Boyne
The ‘Love Undercover’ series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. – Lori Foster
I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category. – Karan Singh Grover
I also try very hard to create characters – both heroes and villains – with psychological depth. – Jeffery Deaver
Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers. – Justin Bartha