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.


--Charlton Heston (as Judah Ben) in Ben-Hur

[Holly and Sebastian are one-upping each other on the trapeze]
Buttons: How long do you think this can go on before something happens?
Brad Braden: It's circus, isn't it?
Buttons: Do you believe in prayer?
Brad Braden: And practice.


--Charlton Heston (as Brad Braden) in The Greatest Show on Earth

George Taylor: If this is the best they've got around here, in six months we'll be running this planet.


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes

George Taylor: It's a mad house! A mad house!


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes

George Taylor: Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes

George Taylor: And that completes my final report until we reach touchdown. We're now on full automatic, in the hands of the computers. I have tucked my crew in for the long sleep and I'll be joining them soon. In less than an hour, we'll finish our sixth month out of Cape Kennedy. Six months in deep space - by our time, that is. According to Dr. Haslein's theory of time, in a vehicle travelling nearly the speed of light, the Earth has aged nearly 700 years since we left it, while we've aged hardly at all. Maybe so. This much is probably true - the men who sent us on this journey are long since dead and gone. You who are reading me now are a different breed - I hope a better one. I leave the 20th century with no regrets. But one more thing - if anybody's listening, that is. Nothing scientific. It's purely personal. But seen from out here everything seems different. Time bends. Space is boundless. It squashes a man's ego. I feel lonely. That's about it. Tell me, though. Does man, that marvel of the universe, that glorious paradox who sent me to the stars, still make war against his brother? Keep his neighbor's children starving?


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes

George Taylor: Chalk up another victory to the human spirit.


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes

George Taylor: Doctor, would an ape make a human doll that TALKS?


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes

George Taylor: 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.


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes

George Taylor: Imagine me needing someone. Back on Earth I never did. Oh, there were women. Lots of women. Lots of love-making but no love. You see, that was the kind of world we'd made. So I left, because there was no one to hold me there.


--Charlton Heston (as George Taylor) in Planet of the Apes