Charlton Heston

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

— Charlton Heston

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

— Charlton Heston

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

— Charlton Heston

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

— Charlton Heston

I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.

— Charlton Heston

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

— Charlton Heston

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far…

— Charlton Heston

One way or another, if you’re persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

— Charlton Heston

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

— Charlton Heston

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of…

— Charlton Heston

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example.…

— Charlton Heston

In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and…

— Charlton Heston

Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought.…

— Charlton Heston

A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun…

— Charlton Heston

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al…

— Charlton Heston

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In…

— Charlton Heston

Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed,…

— Charlton Heston

You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking…

— Charlton Heston

I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and…

— Charlton Heston

As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only…

— Charlton Heston

Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the…

— Charlton Heston

[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three…

— Charlton Heston

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

— Charlton Heston

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

— Charlton Heston

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

— Charlton Heston

You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.

— Charlton Heston

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

— Charlton Heston

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

— Charlton Heston

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

— Charlton Heston

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's…

— Charlton Heston

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

— Charlton Heston

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

— Charlton Heston

You can be sure that they'll be showing 'Ben-Hur' somewhere for a long, long time to come.

— Charlton Heston

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

— Charlton Heston

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

— Charlton Heston

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

— Charlton Heston

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

— Charlton Heston

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think…

— Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux…

— Charlton Heston

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as…

— Charlton Heston