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Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

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.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

There is a hero built in all of us.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.