Charlton Heston Quotes, Thoughts and images

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

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

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A war put off is not a war avoided.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

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.

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

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

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

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.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

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.

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.