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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.