Gregory Peck

"If I have to tell him who I am, then Im not."

"I put everything I had into it — all my feelings and everything Id learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity."

"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 dont think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation."

"I think I should have been more ferocious in pursuit of the whale, more cruel to the crew, and I think Id have a better grasp now of what Melville was talking about. Ahab focused all his energies on avenging himself against the whale, but he was trying to penetrate the mystery of why we are here at all, why there is anything. I wasnt mad enough, not crazy enough, not obsessive enough. I should have done more. … At the time, I didnt have more in me."

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

"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."

"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 its 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."