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.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • True
  • Hope
  • Leader

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Joy

• 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.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• 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.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • More
  • Upset
  • Far

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• 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.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Company

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Small
  • Act

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• 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.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Man
  • Friend
  • Do The Right Thing

• I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Last

• Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Boy

• I guess, if it wasn't for Jordan, there would be no LeBron or Kobe who plays like that.

  

  Ben Simmons

• Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

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

  

  Charlton Heston
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Luck