Heroes quotes

“OK gentleman, you're our warriors up there. God be with you. You're already heroes, just sit back and enjoy the ride.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Dan Truman

“It's not about being a hero. I went in because there was a kid up there. I do what I do because that's my way. And it was dad's way. Maybe it's not everybody's way.”

Kurt Russell - Steven McCaffrey

“He's just a kid. No older than my son.”

Tony Campisi - Train Passenger

“Don't you ever get tired of bein' a hero?”

Forest Whitaker - Franklin

“Let me tell you something: you couldn't have convinced me the way you did unless somewhere in you you had that courage! Nobody's that good an actor! You are that silly goddamn hero!”

Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“To me you were! Whoever you were in those movies, those silly goddamn heroes meant a lot to me! What does it matter if it was an illusion? It worked! So don't tell me this is you life-size. I can't use you life-size. I need Alan Swanns as big as I can get them!”

Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“It does not take a sword and stone to make a hero.”
Joss Ackland - King Arthur

“- Captain: Phillip, the old bunch is gone. Look at these new heroes. All wind and smoke. Just big mouths.
- Thomsen: Yeah, yeah. They keep together, balls in hand. And the belief in our Führer in their eyes.
- Captain: They will know in time.”
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte
Otto Sander - Phillip Thomsen

“- Commander Kates: Where's Cusack?
- Cragie: He's saving the world.”
Bert Remsen - Commander Kates
Ralph Foody - Cragie

“- Wolverine: You actually go outside in these things?
- Cyclops: Well, what would you prefer, yellow spandex?”

Hugh Jackman - Wolverine
James Marsden - Cyclops

“- Slammer: What makes you think you can be a Black Hero?
- Jack Spade: I'm an ex-football player.”
Jim Brown - Slammer
Keenen Ivory Wayans - Jack Spade

“I had hoped to become a hero. But in St. Cloud's there was no such position. In the lonely, sordid world of lost children, there were no heroes to be found. And so I became the caretaker of many, father of none.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“Superheroes that pray together stay together.”

Trey Parker - Joe Young

“- Jordan O'Neill: You were given the Navy Cross right? May I ask what you got it for?
- Master Chief John James Urgayle: Since it bears on this conversation, I got it for pulling a 250-pound man out of a burning tank.
- Jordan O'Neill: So stopping to save a man makes you a hero, but if a man stops to help a woman, he's gone soft?”
Demi Moore - Jordan O'Neill
Viggo Mortensen - Master Chief John James Urgayle

“- John Reid: I read your article you wrote in the paper this morning.
- Amy Striker: Oh? Did you like it?
- John Reid: Well, you made me sound like a hero.”
Klinton Spilsbury - John Reid
Juanin Clay - Amy Striker

“This is incredible. With these powers, I could be... A superhero! I could fight crime, protect the innocent, work for World Peace! But first...”

Jim Carrey - Stanley Ipkiss

Behind every so-called “hero” is a little pissed-off dude that don't get no credit.
Eddie Griffin - Luther

“- Alan Swann: Stone... I'm afraid. I'm afraid. That's why I couldn't get out of the car to see my Tess, my child.
- Benjy Stone: Alan Swann, afraid? The Defender of the Crown? Captain from Tortuga? The Last Knight of the Round Table?
- Alan Swann: Those are movies, damn you! Look at me! I'm flesh and blood, life-size, no larger! I'm not that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“Maybe a real hero is the last one to hear about it.”
James Stewart - Wylie Burp

- Gretchen Ross: "Donnie Darko". What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something.
- Donnie Darko: What makes you think I'm not?
Jena Malone - Gretchen Ross
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko

“- Kevin: He was one of my heroes.
- Randall: Heroes! Heroes! What do they know about a day's work?”

Craig Warnock - Kevin
David Rappaport - Randall

“- Beth Easton: She saved my life, she's a hero!
- Kate Easton: Yeah, well according to the Sheriff, your so called hero, can't walk into a store without stealing something.”
Christina Ricci - Beth Easton
Polly Draper - Kate Easton

“- Arlo: We're heroes, my man. It's time to start acting like it. Quit limping around like that.
- Tim Mason: Excuse me, I got a bullet in my leg.
- Arlo: Always the negative with you.”
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Arlo
Skeet Ulrich - Tim Mason

“- Penny: Having another hero cop dream, Uncle John?
- Officer John Brown: Every time I close my eyes.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Penny
Matthew Broderick - John Brown

“- Max: Well?
- John Hatcher: One thought he was invincible... the other thought he could fly.
- Max: So?
- John Hatcher: They were both wrong.”
Keith David - Max
Steven Seagal - John Hatcher