Gregory Peck Quotes

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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…
• They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more…
• 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…
• 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?
• 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…
• It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.
• I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
• 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…
• Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
• The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.
• I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
• If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.
• I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.
• 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…
• In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.
• Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
• 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.
• 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.

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