Chelston Heston Quotes

I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me. ~ Charlton Heston

I've been a public person for most of my life. It has advantages and disadvantages. I can't take my kids to Disneyland. On the other hand, I can get a table at a restaurant or tickets to a play. ~ Charlton Heston

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary. ~ Charlton Heston

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it. ~ Charlton Heston

Political Correctness, what does it mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on American campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to suppression? Let's be honest. Who thinks professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. ~ Charlton Heston

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. ~ Heston Blumenthal

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times. ~ Heston Blumenthal

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first. ~ Charlton Heston

[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake. ~ Charlton Heston

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. ~ Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. ~ Liz Smith

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston. ~ Tom Selleck

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it. ~ Charlton Heston

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. ~ Heston Blumenthal

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. ~ Charlton Heston

This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me. ~ Heston Blumenthal

Greatness isn't a destination, it's a process. Anything outside your current reach and capacity is greatness. All you get to do is take the next step. Many people don't have a clue what they want or what their passion is. That's ok. This book will help you move as far down the path as you wish to go. But ~ Jonathan Heston

God - unless you're Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both - speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings, if there is a God. ~ David Foster Wallace

A policemans job is only easy in a police state. ~ Charlton Heston

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business. ~ Charlton Heston

A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials. ~ Charlton Heston

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people. ~ Charlton Heston

Tag said I was aptly named. "Wasn't Moses a prophet or something?"
I just rolled my eyes. At least we weren't talking about the fact that I'd been found in a basket.
"MO-SES!" Tag said my name in a deep, echoing "God voice," reminiscent of the old Charlton Heston movie, The Ten Commandments. Gigi had loved Charlton Heston. I'd spent an Easter with her the year I was twelve and we'd had a Charlton Heston marathon that made me want to smear red paint above everybody's door and burn all the bushes in Levan. Come to think of it, I had smeared paint all over Levan, many times. It was all Charlton Heston's fault. ~ Amy Harmon

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. ~ Heston Blumenthal

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry ... ~ Charlton Heston

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting. ~ Charlton Heston

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills ... all apart from cooking. ~ Heston Blumenthal

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste. ~ Heston Blumenthal

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way. ~ Charlton Heston

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste. ~ Heston Blumenthal

I'm neither giving up nor giving in. ~ Charlton Heston

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? ~ Al Sharpton

A war put off is not a war avoided. ~ Charlton Heston

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out. ~ Charlton Heston

It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ... ~ Charlton Heston

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate. ~ Charlton Heston