Persistent Quotes 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.

— Charlton Heston

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

— Charlton Heston

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Charlton Heston

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

— Charlton Heston

To the world, you are America.

— Charlton Heston

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

— 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…

— 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,…

— Charlton Heston

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

— 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…

— Charlton Heston