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Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Academy Award for Best Actor nominations, and won once – for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film To Kill a Mockingbird . U.S. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema, ranking him at No. 12.
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“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 it’s harder to make
them interesting.”
[on preferring his middle name to his first name] "There’s no nickname for Eldred.”
<>““I am a Roman Catholic. Not a fanatic, but I practice enough to keep the franchise… Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”
“Every script I’m offered has Cary Grant’s paw prints on it.”
“The shackling of actors to loaded long-term contracts is virtually a thing of the past. In effect, I have complete control over what I do. A year of two back this was considered some kind of victory of art over tyranny. Now I’m not so sure. I’m a free soul, you remember. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be a writer. Freedom of mind and action is important to me. Right now I’d like to take off for Mexico and fish for a while and swim and read books without wondering whether they would make a good picture.”
“That’s why those fellas were so magnificent playing the same part, because they’d played it forty times. That’s why John Wayne finally became a good actor in True Grit (1969) – he’s got 150 of them behind him. Now he’s developed a saltiness and an earthiness and a humor and a subtlety that comes from mining that same vein over and over again.”
“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.”
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“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 it’s harder to make
them interesting.”
[on preferring his middle name to his first name] "There’s no nickname for Eldred.”
<>““I am a Roman Catholic. Not a fanatic, but I practice enough to keep the franchise… Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”
“Every script I’m offered has Cary Grant’s paw prints on it.”
“The shackling of actors to loaded long-term contracts is virtually a thing of the past. In effect, I have complete control over what I do. A year of two back this was considered some kind of victory of art over tyranny. Now I’m not so sure. I’m a free soul, you remember. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be a writer. Freedom of mind and action is important to me. Right now I’d like to take off for Mexico and fish for a while and swim and read books without wondering whether they would make a good picture.”
“That’s why those fellas were so magnificent playing the same part, because they’d played it forty times. That’s why John Wayne finally became a good actor in True Grit (1969) – he’s got 150 of them behind him. Now he’s developed a saltiness and an earthiness and a humor and a subtlety that comes from mining that same vein over and over again.”
“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.”
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