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Film Quotes by Charlton Heston

112 quotes
Will Penny
Year: 1968

Director:
Tom Gries
Will Penny: I'm sure glad no one seen me do that. I'd be laughed off the place.
Catherine Allen: What? Milking?
Will Penny: No self-respectin' cowhand'd be caught dead milkin' a cow!
Catherine Allen: I won't tell anyone.
Will Penny: I sure won't go braggin' on it none.
-- Charlton Heston (as Will Penny) in Will Penny (1968)
Will Penny
Year: 1968

Director:
Tom Gries
Will Penny: That's always the way, ain't it?
Alex: What's always the way?
Will Penny: Let a man die, right away he's "good, old Claude". How was he *before* he bucked out?
-- Charlton Heston (as Will Penny) in Will Penny (1968)
Secret of the Incas
Year: 1954

Director:
Jerry Hopper
Miss Morris: Most men don't enjoy taking money from women.
Harry Steele: I do. It's the hardest to get, and it smells so good.
El Cid
Year: 1961

Director:
Anthony Mann
Jimena: Can you forgive me, Rodrigo?
El Cid: Jimena.
Jimena: Would you take me with you?
El Cid: But... now I... have nowhere to take you.
Jimena: As long as we are together it will not be nowhere. I love you Rodrigo. I love you.
[They kiss]
El Cid: You know what you risk if you come with me, my love?
Jimena: Since my love is not a man like other men my life with not be like other lives.
El Cid: It's only now, only know that I know... how hard the road would have been without you.
[They kiss again]
-- Charlton Heston (as El Cid Rodrigo de Bivar) in El Cid (1961)
Major Dundee
Year: 1965

Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Lt. Graham: You'd let Charriba escape?
Maj. Amos Dundee: Let's say I'm giving him... equal opportunity.
-- Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee (1965)
55 Days at Peking
Year: 1963

Director:
Nicholas Ray*Guy Green*Andrew Marton
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff: You know, I think I'll get you to take me to San Francisco with you.
Maj. Matt Lewis: Oh? Why to San Francisco?
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff: Well, isn't that the place where they found all the gold?
Maj. Matt Lewis: [laughs]
-- Charlton Heston (as Maj. Matt Lewis) in 55 Days at Peking (1963)
Major Dundee
Year: 1965

Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Teresa Santiago: [on Tyreen] He seems a very fanciful man.
Maj. Amos Dundee: He is corrupt. But I will save him.
-- Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee (1965)
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Sandy MacKinnon: Which way are you going back to the post?
Colonel Weybright: The way every detail goes back.
Ed Bannon: Pick another way, Colonel.
Colonel Weybright: These Apaches were here for peace. Do you see any paint on their faces?
Ed Bannon: They don't have to have paint on their faces, but they can't fight without paint. They got to have it on them somewhere.
Arrowhead
Year: 1953

Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Sandy: I think they're swinging too wide for a circle, Ed. Maybe they're not using a pattern at all.
Ed Bannon: Apaches always use a pattern for their campaigns. I've seen 'em fight in a circle covering hundreds of miles or in an X as big as the whole territory. Even a zigzag pattern. We got to be sure which one they're using now.
Will Penny
Year: 1968

Director:
Tom Gries
Blue: [referring to the severely wounded Dutchy] He's a good boy. This is no good way for him to go, Will.
Will Penny: Tell yuh, Blue, ain't no good way to go.
-- Charlton Heston (as Will Penny) in Will Penny (1968)