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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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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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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You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.
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The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
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Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.
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To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.
