#heroes

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

#birds #children #converse #domestic #heroes

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#about #became #charlie #famous #feeling

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes. ↗

— Paz Vega

#seville

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain extent #extent #got #heroes #i

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war. ↗

— Richard Dawson

#lasted #longer #than #war

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure. ↗

— Danielle Dax

#buzz #destroy #feel #find #get

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#both #characters #create #depth #hard

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#asked #done #emulate #every #first

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#enjoying #heroes #leisure #making #necessary

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes. ↗

— Richard Donner

#hackman #heroes #just #lifetime #thrill