Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Gregory Peck

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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