Author Profile
Charlton Heston
1923 – 2008 • American • Actor
28
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 28 quotesActing, 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
You can be sure that they'll be showing 'Ben-Hur' somewhere for a long, long time to come.— Charlton Heston
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 is as much a part of what you do as your talent.— Charlton Heston
The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.— Charlton Heston
I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.— Charlton Heston
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.— Charlton Heston
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.— Charlton Heston
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.— 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 trash it completely.— Charlton Heston
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.— Charlton Heston
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
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.— Charlton Heston
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.— Charlton Heston