Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.' — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
