Charlton Heston Quotes

I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.

You cut their money back, for one thing ... I go back a long way with the NEA.

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

To the world, you are America.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry ...

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath ... and even into the 70s.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.