Gregory Peck Quotes

• You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

  Gregory Peck

  Dream, Disappointment, Thinking

  "The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It - As a Visual Artist". Book by Barb Benson, 2007.

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

  Gregory Peck

  Life And Love, Giving, Perspective

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

  Gregory Peck

  Workout, Attitude, Bodybuilding

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

  Gregory Peck

  Vanity, Ifs, Who You Are

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

  Gregory Peck

  Ideas, Important, Entertainment

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 148, 2003.

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• I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'

  Gregory Peck

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Gregory Peck

  Silly, Simple, Seems

  "Majestic Presence". www.thehindu.com. June 20, 2003.

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• I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

  Gregory Peck

  Believe, Political Opinions, Odds

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 167, 2003.

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• 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.

  Gregory Peck

  Play, Interesting, Guy

  "Gregory Peck: Story of a Legendary Hero". archive.thedailystar.net. June 15, 2006.

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

  Gregory Peck

  Tales, Tact, Discretion

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

  Gregory Peck

  Art, Compassion, Generosity

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• I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

  Gregory Peck

  Children, Father, Opportunity

  On his role as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird". "Oscar-Winner Gregory Peck Dies at Age 87", usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2003.

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

  Gregory Peck

  Gun, Hands, People

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

  Gregory Peck

  Scripts, Emotion

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• There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses---and friends, in my life---but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.

  Gregory Peck

  Mother, Queens, Children

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• Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

  Gregory Peck

  Character, Thinking, Makeup

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

  Gregory Peck

  School, Gnarly, Feet

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

  Gregory Peck

  Self, Acting, Talent

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

  Gregory Peck

  Axes, Want, Lectures

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Gregory Peck

  Firsts, Towns, Hottest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Gregory Peck

  Ireland And The Irish, Stubborn, Streaks

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

  Gregory Peck

  Sorry, Years, Honey

  "Fictional character: Joe Bradley". "Roman Holiday", 1953.

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• 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.

  Gregory Peck

  Believe, Humanitarian, Embarrassed

  "Gregory Peck - the 'Decent Man of Hollywood'" by Richard Alleyne, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 13, 2003.

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• 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.

  Gregory Peck

  Men, Hats, Great Men

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

  Gregory Peck

  New York, Names, Middle

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