Latest Charlton Heston Quotes from Interviews

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• I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

  Charlton Heston

  Pistols, Kind, Used

  Source: www.infowars.com

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Eye, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Kids, Hands, Play

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Powerful, Successful, Political

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Television, Facts, Mediums

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

• Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Raw Materials, Film

• The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Motivation, Film

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Sex, Thinking, Tolerance

• The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.

  Charlton Heston

  Sex, Mechanic, Courses

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

• I don't think rock music has any positive function.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock Music

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Population, World

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Alcohol, Our Society

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Summer, Art, Thinking

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  People, Four, Efficiency

  Source: reason.com

• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, People, President

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.