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Film Quotes by Charlton Heston

112 quotes
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Arrowhead
Captain Bill North: Give me your attention. This command is going after Toriano. Now, on my responsibility, we'll take our orders from Mr. Bannon.
Ed Bannon: I'll make it short. There's only one way to beat the Apache - fight the way he fights... hit and run until he can't run anymore.
-- Charlton Heston in Arrowhead (1953)
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Arrowhead
Captain Bill North: What is it?
Ed Bannon: Prophecy.
Captain Bill North: Prophecy?
Ed Bannon: They never talk it. It was always written - carved on a tree, painted on a rock. The Invisible One would appear and lead them to victory over the White Eyes. It would be one of their people. He'd come from the East.
Captain Bill North: That fits Toriano
Ed Bannon: That's why he went back East to school... so he could make it fit.
-- Charlton Heston in Arrowhead (1953)
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Arrowhead
Johnny Gunther: Toriano is more than my friend. We played together when we were young. Look at this.
[shows scar on wrist]
Johnny Gunther: We made ourselves blood brothers.
Ed Bannon: There's just one way an Apache can put an end to that relationship. He kills ya!
-- Charlton Heston in Arrowhead (1953)
Major Dundee
Year: 1965

Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Major Dundee
Tim Ryan: [observing the body of Sierra Charriba] He looks so small, now.
Maj. Amos Dundee: He was big enough, son.
-- Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee (1965)
Major Dundee
Year: 1965

Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Major Dundee
Sgt. Gomez: [as the survivor's command emerges from the river] All present and accounted for, sir.
Maj. Amos Dundee: Lieutenant Graham.
Lt. Graham: Yes, sir?
Maj. Amos Dundee: Column of twos.
Lt. Graham: Column of twos!
Maj. Amos Dundee: [to Ryan] Play us a tune, son.
-- Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee (1965)
The Private War of Major Benson
Year: 1955

Director:
Jerry Hopper
The Private War of Major Benson
John: Are you the new soldier fella?
Maj. Bernard 'Barney' Benson: Yeah.
John: You got a lot of ribbons, what do they stand for?
Maj. Bernard 'Barney' Benson: Good conduct.
-- Charlton Heston in The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
The Ten Commandments
Year: 1956

Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
The Ten Commandments
Gershom: [Moses and Sephora are now parents] Did the little boy die in the desert, my father?
Moses: No, God brought Ishmael and Hagar into a good land.
Gershom: The same God, who lives on the mountain?
Moses: It may be, my son.
Sephora: Moses! Moses!
Moses: Here.
[Gershom starts to try blow shofar and Moses chuckles]
Moses: Your mother is calling.
Sephora: Moses! There is a man, among the sheep.
[Sephora saw Joshua]
Moses: Keep sounding the alarm, Gershom, but stay here, until your mother comes.
Sephora: In the cleft, behind the rock.
Moses: Your eyes are as sharp as they are beautiful.
-- Charlton Heston (as Moses / God) in The Ten Commandments (1956)
The War Lord
Year: 1965

Director:
Franklin J. Schaffner
The War Lord
Draco: That naked strumpet wears our father's ring!
Chrysagon: Then honor it, and her!
-- Charlton Heston in The War Lord (1965)
The Greatest Show on Earth
Year: 1952

Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
The Greatest Show on Earth
Brad Braden: [while Buttons is doing first aid] Buttons! If that detective sees you doing this, he won't need *fingerprints*!
-- Charlton Heston (as Brad Braden) in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
The War Lord
Year: 1965

Director:
Franklin J. Schaffner
The War Lord
Chrysagon: From under his right hand, I took that sword. I've lived twenty years with that cold wife.
-- Charlton Heston in The War Lord (1965)