" ' Boy , it ’s a good thing this did n’t burn you on the ball man — you would be a dead man . ' ”

Actors and celebs are many people’s heroes, but some of them have taken the term into the literal sense when they’ve stepped up to save people lives.

1.Danny DeVito

2.Arnold Schwarzenegger

3.John Krasinski

4.Vin Diesel

5.Lawrence Fishburne

6.Heidi Klum

7.Michael Keaton

8.Tom Cruise

9.Harrison Ford

Tyra Banks wearing a buttoned jacket, expressing admiration with the caption "You're my hero."

Smiling man in a patterned shirt posing at a SiriusXM event

Man in a formal suit posing at an event

Vin Diesel wearing a white jacket and cross necklace, smiling at an event with crowd in the background

Two men standing together, one wearing glasses and a scarf, the other in a collared shirt and jacket

Heidi Klum in a yellow dress and black gloves posing on the red carpet

Man in a tuxedo with bow tie standing by an Oscar statue at an event

Tom Cruise as Maverick in a bomber jacket, giving a thumbs up beside a fighter jet

Pilot wearing headset and cap in cockpit holding control stick with landscape visible through window