Charlton Heston Quotes
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I would love to do some theater.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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Will I be a success? I don't know.
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If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.