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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/it-s-fashionable-for-modern-actors-to-talk-about-getting-inside-a/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

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## More by Charlton Heston

> [Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/acting-taken-to-the-highest-level-requires-a-fierce-total-focus-of/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/what-acting-offered-me-was-the-chance-to-be-many-other-people/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/another-plague-upon-the-land-as-devastating-as-the-locusts-god-loosed/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/undeniably-the-american-art-form-too-and-yet-more-and-more-we-see/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/it-s-the-camel-s-nose-in-the-tent-look-at-stalin-mussolini-hitler-mao/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [Life is full of surprises, isn't it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/life-is-full-of-surprises-isn-t-it/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [To the world, you are America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/to-the-world-you-are-america/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/celebrity-is-a-corrosive-condition-for-the-soul/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/you-could-say-that-the-paparazzi-and-the-tabloids-are-sort-of-the/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/you-simply-disobey-peaceably-yes-respectfully-of-course-nonviolently/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/for-an-actor-there-is-no-greater-loss-than-the-loss-of-his-audience/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

> [Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/lenin-in-1921-observed-very-presciently-that-motion-pictures-were-the/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/film-is-the-only-art-form-whose-raw-materials-are-so-horrendously/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/to-the-divisive-forces-that-would-take-freedom-away-i-want-to-tell/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/society-mends-its-wounds-and-that-s-invariably-true-in-all-the/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

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