Gregory Peck Quotes

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

Sorry, honey, but I haven't worn a nightgown in years.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.