Gregory Peck movie quotes

“- Professor Fred Lieberman: Millions of people nowadays are religious only in the vaguest sense. I've often wondered why the Jews among them still go on calling themselves Jews. Do you know, Mr. Green?
- Phil Green: No, but I'd like to.
- Professor Fred Lieberman: Because the world still makes it an advantage not to be one. Thus it becomes a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sam Jaffe - Professor Fred Lieberman
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green

“- Joe Bradley: May I say, speaking for my own... press service: we believe Your Highness's faith will not be unjustified.
- Princess Ann: I am so glad to hear you say it.”
Gregory Peck - Joe Bradley
Audrey Hepburn - Princess Ann

“I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.”
Gregory Peck

“- Atticus Finch: Do you know what a compromise is?
- Scout: Bendin' the law?
- Atticus Finch: Uh, no. It's an agreement reached by mutual consent. Now, here's the way it works. You concede the necessity of goin' to school, we'll keep right on readin' the same every night, just as we always have. Is that a bargain?”
Gregory Peck - Atticus Finch
Mary Badham - Scout Finch

- Scout: May I see your watch? "To Atticus, My Beloved Husband." Atticus, Jem says this watch is gonna belong to him some day.
- Atticus Finch: That's right.
- Scout: Why?
- Atticus Finch: Well, it's customary for the boy to have his father's watch.
- Scout: What are you gonna give me?
- Atticus Finch: Well, I don't know that I have much else of... (continue)(continue reading)
Mary Badham - Scout Finch
Gregory Peck - Atticus Finch

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Gregory Peck - Atticus Finch

“- James McKay: There's some things a man has to prove to himself alone... not to anyone else.
- Patricia Terrill: Not even to the woman he loves.
- James McKay: Least of all her... if she loves him.”
Gregory Peck - James McKay
Carroll Baker - Patricia Terrill

“- Patricia Terrill: Don't you care what people think of you?
- James McKay: I'm not responsible for what people think, Pat, only for what I am.”

Carroll Baker - Patricia Terrill
Gregory Peck - James McKay

“- Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: I was thinking just today, how much fun it would be to go to Italy.
- Gay Keane: Italy? I thought we'd planned on going to Switzerland.
- Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: I know. But Italy somehow seemed so much more - colourful. Might go back to Venice. You know, get in a gondola.
- Gay Keane:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gregory Peck - Anthony Keane
Ann Todd - Gay Keane

“- Phil Green: Some people hate Catholics, some people hate Jews.
- Tommy Green: And no one hates us because we're Americans.”
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green
Dean Stockwell - Tommy Green

“So far I've been digging in facts and data - I've sort of been ignoring feelings.”
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green

“- Kathy Lacey: You can't make over the whole world. You know I'm on Dave's side.
- Phil Green: Well, I'm not on Dave's side or any side, except against their side.”
Dorothy McGuire - Kathy Lacy
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green

“- Tommy Green: Pop, what's that?
- Phil Green: That's a statue of Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.
- Tommy Green: No kidding? That's what Grandma says you're doing. She says she wishes you'd leave the world alone once in a while.”
Dean Stockwell - Tommy Green
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green

“- Tommy Green: What's anti-semitism?
- Phil Green: Well, uh, that's when some people don't like other people just because they're Jews.
- Tommy Green: Why not? Are Jews bad?
- Phil Green: Well, some are and some aren't, just like with everyone else.
- Tommy Green: What are Jews, anyway?
- Phil Green: Well, uh, it's like this. Remember last week...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dean Stockwell - Tommy Green
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green

“- Constance Petersen: All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.
- John Ballantyne: Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peck - John Ballantyne

“- John Ballantyne: That Freud stuff's a bunch of hooey.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! This you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.”
Gregory Peck - John Ballantyne
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov

“- Cleve Van Valen: From the first moment I saw you I've known that I couldn't live without you.
- Lilith Prescott: Well... I'd hate to be the cause of your death, Mr. Van Valen.”
Gregory Peck - Cleve Van Valen
Debbie Reynolds - Lilith Prescott

“What was I supposed to do, stand there and let that little boy shoot me full of holes?”
Gregory Peck - Jimmy Ringo

“- Marshal Mark Strett: Somebody after you?
- Jimmy Ringo: Three somebodies.
- Marshal Mark Strett: The law?
- Jimmy Ringo: Naw, this is personal.
- Marshal Mark Strett: I don't want 'em to catch up with you here.
- Jimmy Ringo: I don't want 'em to catch up with me anywhere.”
Millard Mitchell - Marshal Mark Strett
Gregory Peck - Jimmy Ringo

“- Peggy Walsh: When did you get this idea Jim?
- Jimmy Ringo: Well I didn't get it, it just kinda' came over me. The way gettin' older comes over ya. All of a sudden you look at things different then the way ya did five years ago. All of a sudden I knew this was the only thing in the world I wanted.”
Helen Westcott - Peggy Walsh
Gregory Peck - Jimmy Ringo

“- Jimmy Ringo: Now turn around and head for the door. Keep movin' and don't do anything sudden with your hands.
- Hunt Bromley: I'll be seein' ya, Mister Ringo...
- Jimmy Ringo: All the way outside, sonny.”
Gregory Peck - Jimmy Ringo
Skip Homeier - Hunt Bromley

“- Lewton 'Lewt' McCanles: I'm riding back to that hitching post and then turning and starting to shoot.
- Jesse McCanles: It's more than you did for Sam Pierce! Why all the consideration?
- Lewton 'Lewt' McCanles: I just don't want them fancy friends of yours to say you had a brother who shot you down in cold blood.”
Gregory Peck - Lewton 'Lewt' McCanles
Joseph Cotten - Jesse McCanles

“I have complete control over everything I do. A year or two back, this was considered to be some kind of victory of Art over Tyranny. Now I'm not so sure.”
Gregory Peck

“- Joe Bradley: You should always wear my clothes.
- Princess Ann: It seems I do.”
Gregory Peck - Joe Bradley
Audrey Hepburn - Princess Ann

“- Arroyo: Do you want to drink with me?
- Bitter: I thought you didn't drink.
- Arroyo: Oh, I don't drink with the living. But tonight I come to visit the dead, to celebrate with them. Do you visit your dead ones, amigo?
- Bitter: No, but sometimes they come to visit me.”
Jimmy Smits - Arroyo
Gregory Peck - Bitter