Heroes Quotes

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…

The most challenging work I’ve seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, ‘A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards’, is apt in these days of witless chancers.

There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham’s sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been.

A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

What, do y’all think you’re heroes?’ I didn’t know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I’d say no. I’d say there’s no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.