"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."

“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.”

“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.”

“Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set.”

“Hollywood.com entry on Charlton Heston”

“I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.”

“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.”