Charlton Heston Quotes

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

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

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

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

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

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

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

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

A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

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.

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

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

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

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

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

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

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

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

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

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

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

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

I've been a public person for most of my life. It has advantages and disadvantages. I can't take my kids to Disneyland. On the other hand, I can get a table at a restaurant or tickets to a play.

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

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

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

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

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

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

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

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.