Charlton Heston Quotes
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.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I love India.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.
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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.
