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