Charlton Heston Quotes

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

~ Charlton Heston

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. This meant that I had to come to understand Moses well enough to believe in my portrayal of him.

~ Charlton Heston

I'm neither giving up nor giving in. I believe I'm still the fighter that Dr King and JFK and Ronald Reagan knew. But it's a fight I must someday call a draw. I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure.

~ 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

We have to pass on to America in the 21st century the same Bill of Rights that those wise, old, dead white guys that invented this country passed on to us.

~ Charlton Heston

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

~ Charlton Heston