A Narnian quote...help, anyone?

[Lost Dreamer]

Yes. *cough cough* as you can see from my title, i need a little bit of help finding out exactly where this narnia quote comes from (movie, book, ect) and what the exact quote is. in my knowledge, this is how it goes:

Don't be afraid of being a hero Peter
some are born heroes
some learn to be heroes
and some find it thrust upon them

Thats the gist of the thing. So: can anyone help me? I'm pretty sure i heard it somehwere here on Narniafans...please, post, pm, whatever. its rather important to me.

[Tsukiko]

Hmm..Now, I've never seen the BBC or animated film. So, its not in any of the books, and not in the new movie either im sure of.

[Jennifu]

I don't know if it's in anything Narnia-related.

Here's the original quote, though, from Shakespeare:

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."

[Lost Dreamer]

thanks; thats a great help.

[LadyAnneOfNarnia]

Sorry, I have no clue. :D

[Samwise Gamgee]

sounds like what came from the BBC Narnia, I would say Sheakspheare wrote it first and then they modified it. :D

[Tsukiko]

Good old BBC's. :D
I reaaaaaaaally wanna see them. Ill probably ask for them for my birthday. then I'd have more Narnia movies to watch. ^^

[Skulblaka_Shur'tugal]

They really weren't that great. They looked like some of those cheap TV shows that have really crude settings and the acting was terrible. The trees were animated, and the Talking Animals were people in costumes. (Not to spoil the fun or anything.)

[WilliamMoseleyismine]

I love BBC!!! I watch BBC America here all the time! Thank God they have it here, or I'd go insane!

[EveningStar]

I can confirm that the text is not from CS Lewis' original Chronicles of Narnia. I have all seven volumes in searchable format and the terms "born heroes" and "thrust upon" do not occur in that context.

John

[Skulblaka_Shur'tugal]

True. I like these newer Narnia films better.

[Copperfox]

The Shakespeare play in question, if I recall correctly, was his comedy "The Twelfth Night." In it, there was a comical servant character, a sort of stuffed-shirt butler (like what Cogswell in "Beauty and the Beast" would have been as a human being), named Malvolio. A noblewoman, for some reason or other, pretended to be attracted to this poor goof, and she said that line about greatness to him.

[Danny Darnia]

True. I like these newer Narnia films better.

Some people prefer the BBc's Narnia, coz it closer to the book. But...it just a comparison between both LWW.

[~Grateful * Surrender~]

I know I heard it in a movie but not Narnia

[Firawyn]

Copperfox was right, it's from Twelfth Night. Very good play. Been re-done too many times though...

@ TrueNarnianFan, you only like the newer ones because they animation was better. We've been spoiled by good graphics and we don't look at what really counts anymore.

The 1979 animated film was by far my favorite, BBC stayed true to the books, but the voices (I'm not even thinking about the pathetic puppets!) sucked. Aslan sounded drunk.