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Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

People aren't universally heroic.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.