Frases de Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck , foi um premiado

ator estadunidense. Interpretou personagens de caráter nobre e corajoso, que lutam contra injustiças. O mais famoso desses é o advogado Atticus Finch do filme O Sol é Para Todos de 1962, que lhe deu o Oscar de melhor ator e que foi escolhido o maior herói das telas pelo American Film Institute em maio de 2003, apenas duas semanas antes de sua morte. Presidiu a Academy de 1967 a 1970. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Abril 1916 – 12. Junho 2003
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Gregory Peck frases e citações

Gregory Peck: Frases em inglês

“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.”

As quoted in The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It — As a Visual Artist‎ (2007) by Barb Benson
Contexto: 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.”

Fonte: 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

“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.”

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.”

Fonte: 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)

“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.”

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

“I put everything I had into it — all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.”

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.