Charlton Heston Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I am a just man.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.
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Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
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Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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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.
