"Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul."

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Source : "Charlton Heston: Great sport with a line in heroic role models". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, June 17, 1990.

Charlton Heston

#Soul Quotes #Fame Quotes

“I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.”
“There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'”
“Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.”
“Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
“We know how difficult it is to do something that works and that you feel proud of. When it happens, it's like a miracle.”
“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
“Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.”
“I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], thatâ€™s a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.”

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