Quotes from Charlton Heston movies and TV shows

Perry: Mr. Koontz, I don't think you understand me. Let me clear: I'm accustomed to getting what I want. I want that bear.

More Alaska quotes

Judah Ben-Hur: If you were not a bride, I would kiss you goodbye.
Esther: If I were not a bride, there would be no goodbyes to be said.

Messala: You're either for me or against me! You have no other choice.
Judah Ben-Hur: If that is the choice, then I am against you.

Judah Ben-Hur: If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I will help you... *murder* them. Besides, you must understand this, Messala. I believe in the past of my people, *and* in their future.
Messala: Future? You are a conquered people!
Judah Ben-Hur: You may conquer the land; you may slaughter the people. But that is not the end. We will rise again.

More Ben-Hur quotes

Steve Leech: All I can say, McKay, is you take a helluva long time to say good-bye.

Steve Leech: You know, McKay, you're a bigger fool than I thought you were. And to tell you the truth, that just didn't seem possible.

More The Big Country quotes

Soldier: I have orders to bring you to Herod, Baptist.
John the Baptist: I have orders to bring you to God... heathen.

More The Greatest Story Ever Told quotes

Matthias: You are discarded. You are the refuse of the past.
Neville: You are full of crap.

Neville: You know the old song? If you were the only girl in the world, and I was the only boy, well, okay, but until then, don't bother me? Well, I guess I'm the only boy.

Matthias: Definition of a scientist - a man who understands nothing until there was nothing left to understand.
Neville: So, there is a little light in the forest after all.

Neville: And Speedy Bob Neville - his great legs churning goes speeding across the finish line with a three minute and fifty second mile. Go ahead, let's see some son-of-a-bitch beat that.

More The Omega Man quotes

George Taylor: Take your stinkin' paws off me, ya damn dirty ape.

George Taylor: You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

More Planet of the Apes quotes

Moses: Those who will not live by The Law shall die by The Law!

Moses: No son could have more love for you than I.
Seti: Then why are you forcing me to destroy you? What evil has done this to you?
Moses: The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith - only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a God, He did not mean this to be so. What I have done... I was compelled to do.

Moses: Let your own image proclaim my loyalty for a thousand years.
Seti: Superb! Rameses! And this you call treason? Who would take a throne by force that he has earned by deeds?

More Ten Commandments quotes

Draco: That naked strumpet wears our father's ring.
Chrysagon: Then honor it, and her.

Chrysagon: From under his right hand, I took that sword. I've lived twenty years with that cold wife.

More The War Lord quotes

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?

More Will Penny quotes

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.