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Charlton Heston was an American actor renowned for his performances in films. Born on October 4, 1923, he passed away on April 5, 2008. Heston starred in numerous films, including 'The Ten Commandments', 'Cleopatra', and the 'Star Wars' series, winning multiple awards, including an Academy Award.

In the Arena: An Autobiography

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“I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.”

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“A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.”

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“I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.”

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“Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.”

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

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“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.”

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“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 This is out of date.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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“I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.”

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“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.”

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

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

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“I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.”

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“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.”

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“It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.”

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“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.”

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

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“To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.”

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“One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.”

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“I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.”

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“We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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“The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.”

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“In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.”

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

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

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“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.”

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“My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.”

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“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.”

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“You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking down everything I'm saying because you think I'm such a marvelous fellow but because your editors say go get 1,200 words or whatever on Chuck Heston.”

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

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

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“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.”

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“Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America’s campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?”

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

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“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.”

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

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“You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.”

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“As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.”

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“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.”

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“To the world, you are America.”

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

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About the Author

Born: October 4, 1923
Died: April 5, 2008
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 86

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