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To the world, you are America.
A war put off is not a war avoided.
Life is full of surprises, isn't it?
I'm neither giving up nor giving in.
Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.
Above all, a director has to be a good captain.
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.
A policemans job is only easy in a police state.
I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century
I don't think rock music has any positive function.
It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.
An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.
To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.
The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.
All the good modern parts go to Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant.
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.
I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.
One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.
Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.
As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.
The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.
My appearance qualifies me for historic characterizations, going back to the year one.
You can be sure that they'll be showing 'Ben-Hur' somewhere for a long, long time to come.
I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.
The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.
Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.
I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.
The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.
Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'
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.
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
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.
Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.