Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
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.
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.
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.
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
During his lean salad days, he supported himself as a Radio City Music Hall tour guide and as a catalog model for Montgomery Ward.
Peck was inducted into the "Hall of Great Western Performers" of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1979.
According to at least one biography, he took his role in The Omen (1976) at a huge cut in salary (a mere $250,000) but was guaranteed 10% of the film's box office take. When it went on to gross more than $60 million in the U.S. alone, The Omen (1976) produced the highest-paid performance of Peck's career.
Peck was named the 12th greatest actor on "The 50 Greatest Screen Legends" list by the American Film Institute.
In the spring of 1939, Peck skipped graduation at the University of California at Berkeley and, with $160 and a letter of introduction in his pocket, went by train to New York, traveling coach, to embark on his acting career.
His performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) is ranked #13 on Premiere Magazine's "100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time".
He said that his favorite leading ladies were
Peck's earliest movie memory is of being so scared by The Phantom of the Opera (1925) at age 9 that his grandmother allowed him to sleep in the bed with her that night.
He was the first Chairman of the American Film Institute (1967-1969).
In 1967, he won a Special Academy Award: "The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award".
He was a Charter Member of the National Council on the Arts (1968-1974).
He was good friends with Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1975, his oldest son Jon committed suicide.
His parents divorced when he was five and he was sent to live with his grandmother.
He was an only child.
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