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Film Quotes by Gregory Peck

96 quotes
Behold a Pale Horse
Year: 1964

Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Francisco: Only two years ago one of our priests was in the bank in San Marco when you robbed it. It knocked him loose from his senses and he has never recovered.
Manuel Artiguez: Priests should stay out of banks.
-- Gregory Peck (as Manuel Artiguez) in Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Year: 1962

Director:
Robert Mulligan
Scout: Atticus, do you defend niggers?
Atticus Finch: [startled] Don't say 'nigger,' Scout.
Scout: I didn't say it... Cecil Jacobs did; that's why I had to fight him.
Atticus Finch: [sternly] Scout, I don't want you fightin'!
Scout: I had to, Atticus, he...
Atticus Finch: I don't care what the reasons are: I forbid you to fight.
-- Gregory Peck (as Atticus Finch) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Year: 1962

Director:
Robert Mulligan
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 value that belongs to me... But there's a pearl necklace; there's a ring that belonged to your mother. And I've put them away, and they're to be yours.
-- Gregory Peck (as Atticus Finch) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Year: 1962

Director:
Robert Mulligan
Scout: Why there he is, Mr. Tate. He can tell you his name...
[Looks at the man]
Scout: Hey, Boo.
Atticus Finch: [making introductions] Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.
-- Gregory Peck (as Atticus Finch) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Mirage
Year: 1965

Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Ted Caselle: My secretary is out to lunch, my partner is out in a case. My name is Caselle. Who recommended you, Mr....?
David Stillwell: Stillwell. David Stillwell. I saw the sign.
-- Gregory Peck (as David) in Mirage (1965)
The Big Country
Year: 1958

Director:
William Wyler
Patricia Terrill: [discussing McKay's "cowardice"] 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.
-- Gregory Peck (as James McKay) in The Big Country (1958)
The Big Country
Year: 1958

Director:
William Wyler
Patricia Terrill: Well, even when you rode Old Thunder, everybody knew it. Ramon knew it. Julie knew it. But me? Not a word. Why? You know how much it meant to me... with everybody laughing at me. And don't tell me they weren't. But you wouldn't do it for me. Why not? Why not for me?
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 (as James McKay) in The Big Country (1958)
The Gunfighter
Year: 1950

Director:
Henry King
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.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Year: 1952

Director:
Henry King*Roy Ward Baker
Contessa: Oh, I just devoured your last book!
Harry Street: [sarcastically] Well, I hope it didn't give you a bellyache!
-- Gregory Peck (as Harry Street) in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Mirage
Year: 1965

Director:
Edward Dmytryk
[Josephson is considering whether to side with David or the Major]
David Stillwell: Dammit, Josephson, commit! If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space!
-- Gregory Peck (as David) in Mirage (1965)