Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

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.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

We will have created a tremendous economic machine once again. To do that, we're taking back jobs.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.