“Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.”

— Charlton Heston

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)

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“Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.”

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