If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

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

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

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

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

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

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

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

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

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.