Charlton Heston movie quotes

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Charlton Heston

“There's a special excitement in playing a man who made a hole in history large enough to be remembered centuries after he died.”
Charlton Heston

“So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobediences of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, by God's grace, built this country.”
Charlton Heston

“- Henry Frapp: I holed up behind some rocks' but that didn't do no good... because they just kept on a-comin', entire Sioux nation. Me outta powder, outta lead. Goddamn, I was one scared nigger!
- Bill Tyler: I thought you said they was 'Rapaho.
- Henry Frapp: No, goddamnit! They was Pawnee!
- Bill Tyler: Well, what happened to you?
- Henry...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brian Keith - Henry Frapp
Charlton Heston - Bill Tyler

“Those who will not live by the law shall die by the law!”
Charlton Heston - Moses

“- Messala: Judah, either you help me or you oppose me, you have no other choice. You're either for me or against me!
- Judah Ben-Hur: If that is the choice, then I am against you.”
Stephen Boyd - Messala
Charlton Heston - Judah Ben-Hur

“- Messala: By what magic do you bear the name of a Consul of Rome?
- Judah Ben-Hur: You were the magician, Messala. When my ship was sunk, I saved the Consul's life.”
Stephen Boyd - Messala
Charlton Heston - Judah Ben-Hur

“- Judah Ben-Hur: If you were not a bride, I would kiss you goodbye.
- Esther: If I were not a bride, there would be no goodbyes to be said.”
Charlton Heston - Judah Ben-Hur
Haya Harareet - Esther

“Who is the boss? The cop or the law?”
Charlton Heston - Mike Vargas

“A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.”
Charlton Heston - Mike Vargas

“- Baka: They use the old ones to do the work of greasing the stones, Lord Prince. If they are killed, it is no loss.
- Moses: Are you a master builder or a master butcher?”
Vincent Price - Baka
Charlton Heston - Moses

“I feel very strongly that the director is supposed to be the boss. Art was never created by democracy.”
Charlton Heston

“An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.”
Charlton Heston

“Cinema is the director's medium. It is written even less than it is acted, but it is primarily the director's medium.”
Charlton Heston

“If you can't make a career out of two de Milles, you'll never do it.”
Charlton Heston On Cecil Blount DeMille

“The most trying work time with an actress I can ever recall.”

Charlton Heston On Sophia Loren

“He’s something of a fuck-up, no question.”
Charlton Heston On Richard Harris

“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

“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

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

“Failure is not an option.”
Charlton Heston - The Mastiff

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

“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

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

“- John Trent: This book is going to drive people absolutely mad!
- Jackson Harglow: Well, let's hope so. The movie comes out next month.”
Sam Neill - John Trent
Charlton Heston - Jackson Harglow