#hero

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#armor #bend #catalyst #cracks #hero

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#bad #beyond #century #dimaggio #good

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#because #betty #her #heroes #i

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake. ↗

— James Marsters

#cake #go #go home #guilty #head

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#beethoven #conductor #deep #heard #heroic

I'm a hero with coward's legs. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#hero #i #legs

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#cares #deeply #generous #give #help

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#day to day #hero #in other words #live #other

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero. ↗

— Will McDonough

#any #around #athlete #became #better