Gregory Peck: Citations en anglais
As quoted in The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It — As a Visual Artist (2007) by Barb Benson
Contexte: 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.
“If I have to tell him who I am, then I'm not.”
Source: Explaining to a friend why he didn't identify himself to the maitre 'd who told them they'd have to wait in line; as quoted in 3 on a Toothbrush (1963) by Jack Paar, p. 274
“It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.”
Speaking at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation awards, as quoted in "Majestic presence" in The Hindu (20 June 2003) http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/06/20/stories/2003062001400100.htm
On the Red Scare and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life by Lynn Haney (2003). page 167. ISBN 0786714735.
Acceptance speech on receiving the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1989, as quoted in "Gregory Peck, a Star of Quiet Dignity, Dies at 87" by William Grimes in The New York Times (13 June 2003)
On his role as Captain Ahab in the film adaptation of Moby-Dick as quoted in "Gregory Peck, a Star of Quiet Dignity, Dies at 87" by William Grimes in The New York Times (13 June 2003) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/obituaries/13PECK.html?pagewanted=all
After receiving a humanitarian award from Motion Picture Academy in 1968, as quoted in "Gregory Peck - the 'decent man of Hollywood'" by Richard Alleyne in 'The Telegraph (13 June 2003) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1432914/Gregory-Peck---the-decent-man-of-Hollywood.html
“I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.”
Source: On usually playing likable characters, as quoted in "Gregory Peck, a Star of Quiet Dignity, Dies at 87" by William Grimes in The New York Times (13 June 2003)
As quoted in "Gregory Peck : Story of a legendary hero" in The Daily Star (15 June 2006) http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/06/15/d606151407162.htm
On his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, in a 1989 CNN interview, quoted in "Oscar-winner Gregory Peck dies at age 87" in USA Today (12 June 2003) http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-06-12-peck-obit_x.htm
“Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.”
On exposing antisemitism in Gentleman's Agreement. Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life by Lynn Haney (2003). page 148. ISBN 0786714735.
