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Charlton Heston

I’ll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia’s obstetrician poked me awake: ‘Congratulations… you have a fine son.’

– Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

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Charlton Heston

You can be sure that they’ll be showing ‘Ben-Hur’ somewhere for a long, long time to come.

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Charlton Heston

When you are a young actor, you’re imbued with the high purpose of your art. You think, ‘They hire me for my talent; if that’s not good enough, then they can hire somebody else.’ Later, you realize that your body is as much a part of what you do as your talent.

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Charlton Heston

I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.

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Charlton Heston

All the good modern parts go to Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant.

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Charlton Heston

My appearance qualifies me for historic characterizations, going back to the year one.

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Charlton Heston

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way – that, on some subconscious level, they’re responsible.

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Charlton Heston

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

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Charlton Heston

Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.

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Charlton Heston

You cut their money back, for one thing… I go back a long way with the NEA.

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Charlton Heston

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath… and even into the 70s.

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