Charlton Heston Quotes - Page 3

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

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

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

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

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.

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

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

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.

Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.

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

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

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

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

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

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.

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

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

To the world, you are America.

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

We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

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

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.