Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston
Charlton Hestonwas an American actor and political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 October 1923
CityEvanston, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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Go forth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.
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Opponents would have you believe the law would change Missouri into a Wild West shootout,
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Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face.
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One of my first memories of my dad during that shoot was him coming home from the Coliseum set after filming the chariot race, and I assumed he was a professional chariot racer at that point, ... He'd bring me home sand from the massive arena.
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That is not our role in American society and we will not be forced to play it,
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I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.
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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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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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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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The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
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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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I don't think rock music has any positive function.
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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'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.