#hero

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#cliched #frailties #good #greater #human

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#bar #changed #dangerous #dark #dizzying

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#i #i think #lives #our #ourselves

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#different #different faiths #disparate #dreams #faiths

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. ↗

— Tim Holden

#america #badge #brave #combat #continued

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#hero #movie #own #than #ticket

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#boy #enough #go #hero #like

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#elvis #fdr #heroes #hometown #hope