Charlton Heston Quotes

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

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

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

A policemans job is only easy in a police state. — Charlton Heston

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. — Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. — Liz Smith

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

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. — Charlton Heston

I'm neither giving up nor giving in. — Charlton Heston

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

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! — Charlton Heston

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? — Al Sharpton

To the world, you are America. — Charlton Heston

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. — Charlton Heston

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

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent. — Charlton Heston

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

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston. — Tom Selleck

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions. — Charlton Heston

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. — Charlton Heston

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

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

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

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

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

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

A war put off is not a war avoided. — Charlton Heston

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

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. — Charlton Heston

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. — George Clooney

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

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

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

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. — Charlton Heston

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

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

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

Life is full of surprises, isn't it? — Charlton Heston

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Charlton Heston

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

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. — Charlton Heston

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

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. — Charlton Heston

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

God - unless you're Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both - speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings, if there is a God. — David Foster Wallace

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

Above all, a director has to be a good captain. — Charlton Heston

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live. — Charlton Heston

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

Hollywood
that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting. — Shirley Knight