I've portrayed cops as heroes for far too long, I think.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.

My heroes were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.

Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.

Carers are important. They are the unsung heroes.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.