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Your Quotes for 4 October 2005 - Charlton Heston

John Charles Carter was born at Evanston, Illinois on this day in 1923. After his mother remarried he took his stepfathers surname, and somewhere along the line he took his mother's maiden name as his first name, thus Charlton Heston. Success in the drama program in high school earned him a scholarship to Northwestern University. After serving in the US Army Air Force he moved to New York City and married, working as a model before playing Broadway in 1947. He moved to Hollywood in 1950 and became a major star with the 1956 epic The Ten Commandments. He was an early and visible participant in the civil rights movement of the sixties, more recently he served as president of the National Rifle Association.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

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.

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

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

I don't seem to have a 20th century face.
     - Charlton Heston

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