Charlton Heston
You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.Collection: Gun
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.Collection: Art
In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing, including the change of speeds Arrius [the Roman commander] test Judah with. A real bone-breaker.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Sound
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.Collection: Television
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.Collection: Kids
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Eye
I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Gun
The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.Collection: Lonely
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great menCollection: Men
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.Collection: Gun
As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.Collection: War
I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.Collection: Fear
What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.Collection: Fear
A policemans job is only easy in a police state.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: People
I don't seem to fit really into the 20th CenturyCollection: Fit
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.Collection: Generations
An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.Collection: Kindness
A war put off is not a war avoided.Collection: Military
I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.Collection: Thinking
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.Collection: Luck
I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.Collection: Thinking
Above all, a director has to be a good captain.Collection: Directors
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.Collection: Second Amendment
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.Collection: Powerful
I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.Collection: Believe
Life is full of surprises, isn't it?Collection: Life Is
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.Collection: Dad
Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.Collection: Fate
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.Collection: Believe
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.Collection: Silly
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.Collection: Love
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.Collection: Loss
To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.Collection: Men
The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Character
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'.Collection: Mom
I don't think rock music has any positive function.Collection: Thinking
I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.Collection: Artist
I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.Collection: Pistols
I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.Collection: Purpose
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Sex