My Hero Quotes - Page 3

• Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Hero, Fey

  "Aubrey Plaza on Rejection, Tina Fey, and Safety Not Guaranteed". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. June 8, 2012.

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• My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Hero, Careers, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Hero, People, Giving

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• In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Laughter, Real, Hero

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• So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

  Neil Finn

  Hero, Thinking, Stranger

  "New Zealand's Neil Finn: 'I'm a lifer" By Ayesha Lawrence, www.cnn.com. March 4, 2004.

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• No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

  Martial

  Hero, Winning, Men

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

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• Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

  Anita Baker

  Hero, Issues, Generations

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• Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

  Moby

  Hero

  "One last thing". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Where you live matters: there’s only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, Hero, Circles

  Drew Houston's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 7, 2013.

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• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  Adam Baldwin

  Hero, Long, Firefighter

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• Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early years. Dr. King gave his life, really, to the struggle for everyone. And he believed in non-violence. That's what I've tried to do in terms of my life and my work, following the teachings of God.

  Shirley Sherrod

  Husband, Struggle, Teaching

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.

  Vandana Shiva

  Hero, Order, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Hero, Two, Directors

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Hero, Firsts

  "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.

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• I got very spoiled. Everybody said you will never ever work on such a good movie, you know. I did, because I went on to work on Captain America, which also has a great director, which is Joe Johnston, one of my heroes who designed the old Star Wars movies.

  Daniel Simon

  Stars, War, Hero

  "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.

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• I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

  Maria Thayer

  Hero, Morris

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.

  Winona Ryder

  Hero, Play, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

  Dave Koz

  Hero, Example, Written

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

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• I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this was a very unusual period in music history. So I went on assuming that one day I'm going to have my band like my heroes had their own band. So people ask me this question all the time - they go, "Bass is basically a background instrument." The other thing is that in urban music, Black music, the bass has a much higher profile.

  Marcus Miller

  Hero, People, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

  Joni Mitchell

  Hero, Thinking, Artist

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• People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"

  Sandra Cisneros

  Spiritual, Hero, Intelligent

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

  Frederick Busch

  Hero, Men, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• A lot of young artists in particular think you can just do one great thing and then sit back and collect checks. Most artists, even people like Dan Clowes, who's one of my heroes, don't just do comics. He does paid illustration. He writes screenplays, and so forth, working and selling lots of different things.

  Nicole Georges

  Hero, Writing, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

  Michael Ealy

  Husband, Father, Believe

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My 'heroes' are those - like Chuang Tzu and Heidegger - who recognize that the world of experience is a human world, but recognize too that there is a 'way' or a 'source' to which our lives are answerable.

  David E. Cooper

  Hero, Way, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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