Quotes by Gregory Peck

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

“Beware the sleeping dragon. For when she awakes the Earth will shake [On China].”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Tough times dont last, tough people do, remember?”

“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 Lincolns convictions, his vision, and his toughness.”

“Im not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.”

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

“I expect that every Irish-American coming to Ireland says visiting makes them feel good to be here. But I feel drawn to Dingle, I feel a sense of coming home. For me that is what it is.”

Tough times dont last, tough people do, remember?

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

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more.