When you are a young actor, you're imbued with the high purpose of your art. You think, 'They hire me for my talent; if that's not good enough, then they can hire somebody else.' Later, you realize that your body… — 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
