Charlton Heston, vlastním jménem John Charles Carter
byl americký filmový herec. Jeho manželka byla herečka a fotografka Lydia Clarke.
Hrál hrdiny v mnoha filmových rolích, například Mojžíše ve filmu Desatero přikázaní, Jehudu Ben-Hura ve filmu Ben Hur , Steve Leecha ve filmu Velká země nebo plukovníka George Taylora v Planetě opic.
Celý život se aktivně věnoval otázce lidských a občanských práv. Na začátku své kariéry patřil k hereckým hvězdám vystupujícím proti rasismu, později ve jménu práva na život ostře vystupoval proti interrupcím. Rovněž obhajoval právo Američanů nosit zbraň. V letech 1998 až 2001 byl prezidentem asociace držitelů zbraní National Rifle Association.
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„Mám tvář, která patří do jiného století.“
Zdroj: [Zemřel herec Charlton Heston, oscarový Ben Hur, kultura.idnes.cz, 2008-04-06, 2013-03-24, http://kultura.idnes.cz/zemrel-herec-charlton-heston-oscarovy-ben-hur-fo9-/filmvideo.aspx?c=A080406_080543_filmvideo_jan]
Speech to the National Press Club (14 September 1997)
Interview Fox News Channel (15 September 1997)
Kontext: You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the "assault weapons" of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as "assault weapons" are protected by the Second Amendment.
“As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.”
Video farewell (2002)
Kontext: I also want you to know I'm grateful beyond measure. My life has been blessed with good fortune. I'm grateful I was born in America, that cradle of freedom and opportunity where a kid from the Michigan North Woods can work hard and make something of his life. I'm grateful for the greatest words ever written, that let me share with you the infinite scope of the human experience.
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
Speech at Harvard Law School (16 February 1999) http://www.nra.org/Speech.aspx?id=6029
Kontext: Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.
Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?
Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe?
It scares me to death and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason.
You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that... and abide it... you are — by your grandfathers' standards — cowards.
“Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no "good guns."”
There are no "bad guns". Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.
Interview on Meet the Press (18 May 1997)
“I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.”
Los Angeles Times interview (1956)
Kontext: I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. This meant that I had to come to understand Moses well enough to believe in my portrayal of him.
Video farewell (2002)
Kontext: I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life.
For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.
“I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist”
Sunday Times interview (1990)
Kontext: I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.
“Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.”
I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed.
Sunday Times interview (1990)
“To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.”
Los Angeles Times interview (1956)
Kontext: To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.
He was a man of immense ability, immense emotions, immense humanness and immense dedication. There is something of Moses in each of us — the more there is, the better we are.
It is interesting to note that once Moses climbs Mt. Sinai and talks to God there is never contentment for him again. That is the way it is with us. Once we talk to God, once we get his commission to us for our lives we cannot be again content. We are happier. We are busier. But we are not content because then we have a mission — a commission, rather.
Video farewell (2002)
Kontext: I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life.
For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.
Zdroj: Los Angeles Times interview (1956)
Kontext: To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.
He was a man of immense ability, immense emotions, immense humanness and immense dedication. There is something of Moses in each of us — the more there is, the better we are.
It is interesting to note that once Moses climbs Mt. Sinai and talks to God there is never contentment for him again. That is the way it is with us. Once we talk to God, once we get his commission to us for our lives we cannot be again content. We are happier. We are busier. But we are not content because then we have a mission — a commission, rather.
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in "Appreciation : Charlton Heston" in TIME magazine (6 April 2008) http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1728272,00.html
“Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set.”
On working with director Sam Peckinpah, as quoted in "(Westerns Channel Begins Production on Original Documentary Focusing on Western Films of Legendary Director Sam Peckinpah" (29 August 2003) https://archive.is/20130628092918/www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-24232345_ITM
Video farewell (2002)
Speech to the National Press Club (14 September 1997)
This is our country. As Americans, we're free to travel wherever we want in our broad land.
NRA annual meeting closing remarks http://www.nrawinningteam.com/meeting99/hestsp2.html, Denver, Colorado, 1999-05-01; referring to the complaints that some had that the NRA should not proceed to have its scheduled convention in Denver out of sensitivity to the fact that the Columbine shootings had occurred near the convention site; used on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Aug. 19, 2010) http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-19-2010/extremist-makeover---homeland-edition as reasoning why a proposed mosque near the site of the September 11th terrorist attacks must be allowed to be built.
NRA annual meeting opening remarks http://www.nrawinningteam.com/meeting99/hestsp1.html, Denver, Colorado, 1999-05-01
Mayor Webb asked the NRA not to hold this meeting, which fell shortly after the Columbine High School massacre on 1999-04-20.
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Speech to the National Press Club (14 September 1997)
Los Angeles Times interview (1956)
Speech at NRA Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina (20 May 2000)
referencing a slogan from a series of NRA bumper stickers, "I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands"
Winning the Cultural War (1999)
Zdroj: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/charltonhestonculturalwar.htm 16 February 1999
Winning the Cultural War (1999), Video farewell (2002)
