Stephen Lang Quotes

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men -- and cowards.

The Italian people are cowards.

Sure, there's pressure when you have one dart at double top when there's a world 'championship to be won, but real 'pressure is what our troops are doing in 'Afghanistan.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.