American - Actor | October 4, 1923 - April 5, 2008
It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.
Charlton Heston
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Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.
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I'll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia's obstetrician poked me awake: 'Congratulations... you have a fine son.'
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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.
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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
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To the world, you are America.
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Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
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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.
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Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.
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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 This is out of date.
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As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
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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.
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