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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by Charlton Heston Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star he appeared in 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played major parts in The Ten Commandments (1956); Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (1959), El Cid (1961), and Planet of the Apes (1968). He also appeared in the films The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Touch of Evil (1958),... Read full biography of Charlton Heston → 1 2 Ctrl → You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. 0 Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. 0 It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it. 0 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... → 0 Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes... → 0 Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. 0 You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s. 0 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... → 0 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. 0 I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man. 0 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... → 0 You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA. 0 To the world, you are America. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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