Charlton Heston movie quotes

107 quotes from 9 movies

True Lies (1994) as Spencer Trilby

View Quote So far, this is not blowing my skirt up, gentlemen.

View Quote Sweet Jesus, Harry, you surely screwed the pooch last night, didn't you?

View Quote Simon: Looks like she could suck start a leaf blower, Titties that make you want to sit up and ask for buttermilk, ass like a 10 year old boy.

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Planet of the Apes (1968) as George Taylor

View Quote [riding down the beach in the last scene] Oh my God... I'm back. I'm home. All the time it was... we finally really did it. [screaming] YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! OH, DAMN YOU! GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! (camera pans to reveal the half-destroyed Statue of Liberty sticking out of the sand)

View Quote Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! Note: ranked #66 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be.

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The Omega Man (1971) as Robert Neville

View Quote [first lines, as the last man on earth wrecks his car] There's never a cop around when you need one.

View Quote [talking to his own image on a TV screen] Hi, Big Brother, how's your ass?

View Quote [later, to the bust of Caesar] What day is it, anyway? Monday? Huh? The hell it is. It's Sunday. Sunday I always dress for dinner.

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Ben-Hur (1959) as Judah Ben-Hur

View Quote Rome is an affront to God. Rome is strangling my people and my country and the whole earth, but not forever. I tell you, the day Rome falls, there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before.

View Quote You may conquer the land, you may slaughter the people. That is not the end. We will rise again.

View Quote [to Messala] May God grant me vengeance. I pray that you live till I return.

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Soylent Green (1973) as Det. Thorn

View Quote [after smoking a cigarette at a party] You know if I had the money I would smoke two... three of these every day.

View Quote You know, there are 20 million guys out of work in Manhattan alone just waiting for my job and yours too.

View Quote Priest: Forgive me. It's destroying me.
Det. Thorn: What is?
Priest: The truth.
Det. Thorn: The truth Simonson told you?
Priest: All truth.

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Hercules (1997) as The Narrator and the Muses

View Quote Thalia: [singing about Hercules' fame and success] And they slapped his face on ev'ry vase.
Clio: On ev'ry "vah-se."

View Quote Melpomene: [singing] Young Herc was mortal now
But since he did not drink the last drop,
He still retained his godlike strength,
So thank his lucky starBut Zeus and Hera wept
Because their son could never come home,
They'd have to watch their precious baby
Grow up from afar Though, Hades' horrid plan
Was hatched before Herc cut his first tooth
The boy grew stronger ev'ry day
And that's the gospel truth

View Quote Narrator: Long ago, in the far away land of ancient Greece, there was a golden age of powerful gods and extrodinay heroes. And the greatest and strongest of all these heroes... was the mighty Hercules. But what is the measure of a true hero? Now that is where our story--
Muse: Would you listen to him?!
Muse 2: He's making the story sound like some Greek tradgedy!
Muse 3: Lighten up, dude!
Muse 4: We'll take it from here, darling.
Narrator: You go, girls.

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Touch of Evil (1958) as Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas

View Quote This isn't the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother's face if she could see our honeymoon hotel.

View Quote How can I leave here until my wife's name is clean? Clean!

View Quote There are all kinds of policemen, sir. I don't have to tell you that. A few take bribes... Most are honest, yes, but even some of the honest men abuse their power in other ways.

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The Three Musketeers (1973) as Richelieu

View Quote Milady: Your Eminence is a great player -- great enough to lose. I do not like to lose.
Richelieu: You must suit yourself, Milady. But if, at the end, you should -- do it with a becoming grace.

View Quote Richelieu: If I had blundered as you do, my head would fall.
Rochefort: I would say, from a greater height than mine, Your Eminence.

View Quote Richelieu: Do you know your accuser? Who brought you here?
M. Bonacieux: [pointing at Rochefort] That! That is the man!
Richelieu: Take him away!
M. Bonacieux: That is not the man! It was another man altogether!!!

Any Given Sunday (1999) as Commissioner

View Quote I honestly believe that woman would eat her young.