I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.

- Adam Schlesinger

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

- Adam Brody

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

- Adam Baldwin

Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

- Aubrey Plaza

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

- Anita Baker

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

- Antony Beevor

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

- Anson Mount

I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.

- Ann Nocenti

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

- Alice Oswald

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

- Aidan Gillen

All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.

- Aaron Sorkin

In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, 'Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?'

- Ashwin Sanghi

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

- Anurag Kashyap

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

- Adam Hamilton

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

- Andrew Young

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

- Alfred North Whitehead

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

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

- Adam Levine

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

- Abigail Adams