Quotes About Gregory Peck

#1. Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!

Rip Taylor

#2. My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

Loretta Lynn

#3. 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

#4. Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#5. I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

Tim DeKay

#6. 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

#7. Of course you prefer Gregory Peck
Because for goodness sake, by heck
Vinnie Jones cannot act
For sure that's a fact
And at football he was also a wreck!

Gerry Wolstenholme

#8. A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

Alfonso Cuaron

#9. While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

Lisa Lutz

#10. My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

Mary-Louise Parker

#11. 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

#12. Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'

Kenneth Cranham

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

#18. 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

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

Gregory Peck

#20. 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

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

Gregory Peck

#22. 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

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

#25. 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.

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

#29. 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

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

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

Gregory Peck

#33. 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

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

Gregory Peck

#35. 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