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Film Quotes by Charlton Heston

112 quotes
Dark City
Year: 1950

Director:
William Dieterle
Dark City
Danny Haley: Playing cards with you two is like washing your feet with your socks on.
-- Charlton Heston (as Danny Haley) in Dark City (1950)
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Arrowhead
Ed Bannon: Apaches don't like horses, Sergeant. They ride 'em until they drop, kill 'em and eat 'em and then steal some more.
-- Charlton Heston in Arrowhead (1953)
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Arrowhead
Ed Bannon: Pick another way back to the post anyway, Colonel
Colonel Weybright: We're at peace.
Ed Bannon: It's a good way to stay alive while you're at peace.
-- Charlton Heston in Arrowhead (1953)
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Arrowhead
Ed Bannon: The Apaches have a saying - think what you want to think. You have to live with your thoughts.
-- Charlton Heston in Arrowhead (1953)
El Cid
Year: 1961

Director:
Anthony Mann
El Cid
El Cid: [to the king, who refused Muslim aid] You risk having no Spain at all!
-- Charlton Heston (as El Cid Rodrigo de Bivar) in El Cid (1961)
El Cid
Year: 1961

Director:
Anthony Mann
El Cid
El Cid: Our dream was short.
Jimena: I know. There is no place hidden for a man like you. There must be thousands who would gladly part. Why you? Why me?
El Cid: Please, let me carry away an image of you smiling.
Jimena: It would be a lie. I will beseech God with my prayers. I will tell Him He must bring you back to me. I must tell God how much I need you.
El Cid: Then we *will* see each other again.
-- Charlton Heston (as El Cid Rodrigo de Bivar) in El Cid (1961)
El Cid
Year: 1961

Director:
Anthony Mann
El Cid
El Cid: People of Valencia! I bring you bread!
-- Charlton Heston (as El Cid Rodrigo de Bivar) in El Cid (1961)
Khartoum
Year: 1966

Director:
Basil Dearden*Eliot Elisofon
Khartoum
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: Every man has a final weapon: his own life. If he's afraid to lose it he throws the weapon away.
-- Charlton Heston in Khartoum (1966)
Khartoum
Year: 1966

Director:
Basil Dearden*Eliot Elisofon
Khartoum
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: If my life has a single point, it's this: I've learned to be unafraid of death but never to be unafraid of failure.
-- Charlton Heston in Khartoum (1966)
Khartoum
Year: 1966

Director:
Basil Dearden*Eliot Elisofon
Khartoum
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: If you, as a servant of your god, must use one hundred thousand warriors to destroy me, a solitary servant of my God, then you whisper to me Muhammed Ahmed: who will be remembered from Khartoum, your god or Mine?
-- Charlton Heston in Khartoum (1966)