Charlton Heston Quotes

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.
Charlton Heston

Loved, Quite, Minute

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.
Charlton Heston

Art, Business, Movies

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

Work, Yourself, Perfect

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

Good, Guy, Dirty

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

Two, Enough, Three

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

End, Done, Matter

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

Government, Bad, Fire

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

Art, Experience, Made

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 This is out of date.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

Before, Vote, Worth

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

Understand, Creative, Artist

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

Society, True, Wounds

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

End, Big, Until

To the world, you are America.
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

Money, Great, Art

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

Contrary, Examples, Wrath

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

Money, Long, Cut

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 4, 1923

Died: April 5, 2008

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