92 Movie Quotes about Heroes (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 4, 2026

Memorable quotes about heroes, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 You can't count on anyone. Especially your heroes.

Jason Lee as Incrediboy Syndrome in The Incredibles

2 You mean you killed off real heroes so that you could pretend to be one?

Craig T. Nelson as Mr. Incredible in The Incredibles

3 I don't know what's out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

James Stewart as Wylie Burp in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

4 Oh, for heaven's sake, son. You're no outlaw. Why, someday you'll be called a great hero.

Andy Devine as Friar Tuck in Robin Hood (1973)

5 Hail the conquering hero.

Quote from Aladdin (1992)

6 Young man, we need a professional hero, not an amateur.

Quote from Hercules

7 Excuse me. It seems to me that what you folks need is a hero.

Tate Donovan as Hercules in Hercules

8 What? What am I supposed to do? Go out there and rescue the girl from the jaws of death, and the whole town will cheer like I'm some kind of a hero?

Tom Hulce as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

9 I know you miss being a hero and your job is frustrating.

Quote from The Incredibles

10 Rule number 15, a hero is only as good as his weapon!

Tate Donovan as Hercules in Hercules