Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.
Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.
Life isn't fair, but you can be.
My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.
I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems
We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.
It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion
I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do
On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.
But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story
All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings.
If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I think is very important ... then I certainly could stand up and I plan on remaining a life member for life.
The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical
I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
