Quotes from Gregory Peck

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.