Heston Quotes

#1. I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

George Clooney

#2. You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking down everything I'm saying because you think I'm such a marvelous fellow but because your editors say go get 1,200 words or whatever on Chuck Heston.

Charlton Heston

#3. If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I think is very important ... then I certainly could stand up and I plan on remaining a life member for life.

Tom Selleck

#4. I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

Charles Hazlewood

#5. For three long days, I felt the cold hand of death on my shoulder. Lost in the depths of despair I tried to figure out what I had done to deserve this. I wasn't an evil person. The worst thing I'd ever done was kick a pig - School trip to Heston Farm, 1964, I maintain it was self-defence.

Alan Partridge

#6. Hollywood
that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

Shirley Knight

#7. Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no
more sense than comparing three painters because
they buy the same brand of brushes. - Jeffrey Steingarten

Grant Achatz

#8. A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Wolfgang Puck

#9. Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

Tom Selleck

#10. If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Al Sharpton

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Liz Smith

#14. I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

Heston Blumenthal

#15. If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

Charlton Heston

#16. As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

Charlton Heston

#17. To the world, you are America.

Charlton Heston

#18. I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

Charlton Heston

#19. One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

Charlton Heston

#20. Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Charlton Heston

#21. Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Charlton Heston

#22. You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Heston Blumenthal

#23. There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

Heston Blumenthal

#24. The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

Charlton Heston

#25. There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

Charlton Heston

#26. A war put off is not a war avoided.

Charlton Heston

#27. I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

Heston Blumenthal

#28. 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

#29. What gets me excited is the original principle.

Heston Blumenthal

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

Heston Blumenthal

#31. Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be ... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

Charlton Heston

#32. To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

Heston Blumenthal

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.

Charlton Heston

#36. The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

Charlton Heston

#37. You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Charlton Heston

#38. 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

#39. No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

Heston Blumenthal

#40. Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

Charlton Heston

#41. My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

Charlton Heston

#42. 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

#43. Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

Charlton Heston

#44. Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

Heston Blumenthal

#45. I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

Charlton Heston

#46. A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

Charlton Heston

#47. The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Charlton Heston

#48. The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.

Charlton Heston

#49. Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

Charlton Heston

#50. Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

Heston Blumenthal

#51. Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Charlton Heston

#52. I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

Charlton Heston

#53. I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

Charlton Heston

#54. You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

Heston Blumenthal

#55. You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Charlton Heston

#56. I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

Heston Blumenthal

#57. You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.

Charlton Heston

#58. I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

Charlton Heston

#59. So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men

Charlton Heston

#60. 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

#61. I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry ...

Charlton Heston

#62. And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

Charlton Heston

#63. At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

Heston Blumenthal

#64. I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Charlton Heston

#65. I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

Charlton Heston

#66. The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

Charlton Heston

#67. I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Heston Blumenthal

#68. In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

Charlton Heston

#69. 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

#70. To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Charlton Heston

#71. An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

Charlton Heston

#72. I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Heston Blumenthal

#73. We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

Heston Blumenthal

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

Charlton Heston

#75. But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

Heston Blumenthal

#76. I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

Charlton Heston

#77. Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

Charlton Heston

#78. Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

Charlton Heston

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Heston Blumenthal

#82. Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

Charlton Heston

#83. In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

Charlton Heston

#84. I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

Charlton Heston

#85. Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

Heston Blumenthal

#86. Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Charlton Heston

#87. The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

Charlton Heston

#88. Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

Charlton Heston

#89. We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

Charlton Heston

#90. I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

Heston Blumenthal

#91. You cut their money back, for one thing ... I go back a long way with the NEA.

Charlton Heston

#92. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Charlton Heston

#93. Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

Heston Blumenthal

#94. 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

#95. I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

Heston Blumenthal

#96. If we don't love and respect ourselves, everything else disintegrates: our relationships, our work, our faith, and our dreams. We are the only filter between the world and ourselves. The more we doubt the filter, the more we doubt everything, sinking into indifferent apathy.

Jonathan Heston

#97. It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

Heston Blumenthal

#98. 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

#99. For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

Charlton Heston

#100. Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Charlton Heston