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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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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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Seeing people decide to choose love instead of hate is phenomenal.
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.
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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.
