Charlton Heston Quotes

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

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.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

To the world, you are America.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

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.

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.

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.

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

I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.