Gregory Peck Quotes

Cleve Van Valen From the first moment I saw you I've known that I couldn't live without you.

Lilith Prescott Well... I'd hate to be the cause of your death, Mr. Van Valen.

Constance Petersen All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.

John Ballantine Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.

Atticus Finch If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Princess Ann Can I sleep here?

Joe Bradley Well, that's the general idea.

Princess Ann Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

Joe Bradley I'm afraid you'll have to rough it tonight - in these.

Princess Ann Pajamas!

Joe Bradley Sorry honey, but I haven't worn a nightgown in years.

Princess Ann Will you help me get undressed, please?

Joe Bradley Uh, OK. There you are, you can handle the rest.

Joe Bradley Tell you what. Why don't we do all those things, together?

Princess Ann But don't you have to work?

Joe Bradley Work? No. Today's gonna be a holiday.

Princess Ann But you want to do a lot of silly things?

Joe Bradley ...First wish? One sidewalk cafe, comin right up. I know just the place. Rocca's.

Scout Mr. Tate was right.

Atticus Finch What do you mean?

Scout Well, it would be sort of like shooting a mockingbird, wouldn't it?

Keith Jennings Look, I want to know what he said. I have a right to know. Robert, I want to know what he said! Look, I'm not just some ]. I was the one who found him!

Robert Thorn I'm the one who's supposed to kill him. These are knives. He wants me to stab him! He wants me to murder a child.

Keith Jennings It's not a child!

Robert Thorn He doesn't know that! Maybe he's wrong. He's not responsible. I won't do it!

Keith Jennings Then if you won't do it, I will.

Moira Davidson All I want to know is: if everybody was so smart, why didn't they know what would happen?

Dwight Towers They did.

Moira Davidson Well, I, I can't take it. I, oh, yes, I can take it! But, it's unfair. It's unfair because I didn't do anything. And nobody I know did anything.

Reporter And what, in the opinion of Your Highness, is the outlook for friendship among nations?

Princess Ann I have every faith in it... as I have faith in relations between people.

Joe Bradley May I say, speaking for my own... press service: we believe Your Highness's faith will not be unjustified.

Princess Ann I am so glad to hear you say it.

Another reporter Which of the cities visited did Your Highness enjoy the most?

General Provno Each, in its own way...

Princess Ann Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to — Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

Dwight Towers Well... how'd you recognise me?

Moira Davidson I love Americans. They're so naïve.

Princess Ann At midnight, I'll turn into a pumpkin and drive away in my glass slipper.

Joe Bradley And that will be the end of the fairy tale.

Dr. Josef Mengele Do you know what I saw on the television in my motel room at one o'clock this morning? Films of Hitler! They are showing films about the war! The movement! People are fascinated! The time is ripe! Adolf Hitler is alive! This album is full of pictures of him. Bobby Wheelock and ninety-three other boys are exact genetic duplicates of him, bred entirely from his cells. He allowed me to take half a liter of his blood and a cutting of skin from his ribs. We were in a Biblical frame of mind on the twenty-third of May 1943, at the Berghof. He had denied himself children because he knew that no son could flourish in the shadow of so godlike a father! But when he heard what was theoretically possible, that I could create one day not his son, not even a carbon-copy but another original, he was thrilled by the idea! The right Hitler for the right future! A Hitler tailor-made for the 1980s, the 1990s, 2000!

Joe Bradley How much would a real interview with this dame be worth?

Hennessey Are you referring to Her Highness?

Joe Bradley I'm not referring to Annie Oakley, Dorothy Lamour, or Madame ... How much?

Hennessey What do you care? You've got about as much chance...

Joe Bradley I know, but if I did? How much would it be worth?

Hennessey Oh, just a plain talk on world issues, it would probably be worth two hundred and fifty. Her views on clothes, of course, would be worth a lot more, maybe a thousand...dollars.

Joe Bradley I'm talking about her views on everything!...The private and secret longings of a Princess. Her innermost thoughts as revealed to your own correspondent in a private, personal, exclusive interview. Can't use it, huh? I didn't think you'd like it.

Hennessey Come here! Love angle too, I suppose.

Joe Bradley Practically all love angle.

Hennessey With pictures.

Joe Bradley Could be. How much?

Hennessey That particular story will be worth five grand to any news service....

Joe Bradley ...You said five grand? I want you to shake on that.

Andrew Jorgenson There's no deal to be made with predators. You kill it or it kills you.

Hennessey In view of the fact that our Highness was taken violently ill at three o'clock this morning, put to bed with a high fever, and has ordered all her appointments for the day cancelled in toto...

Joe Bradley That's certainly pretty hard to swallow.

Hennessey In view of the fact that you just left her, of course.

Andrew Jorgenson This proud company, which has survived the death of its founder, numerous recessions, one major depression, and two world wars, is in imminent danger of self-destructing - on this day, in the town of its birth. There is the instrument of our destruction. I want you to look at him in all of his glory, Larry The Liquidator, the entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people's money. The Robber Barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake - a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. He runs nothing. And in his wake lies nothing but a blizzard of paper to cover the pain. Oh, if he said, I know how to run your business better than you', that would be something worth talking about. But he's not saying that. He's saying, I'm gonna kill you because at this particular moment in time, you're worth more dead than alive. Well, maybe that's true, but it is also true that one day, this industry will turn. One day when the yen is weaker, the dollar is stronger, or, when we finally begin to rebuild our roads, our bridges, the infrastructure of our country, demand will skyrocket. And when those things happen, we will still be here, stronger because of our ordeal, stronger because we have survived. And the price of our stock will make his offer pale by comparison. God save us if we vote to take his paltry few dollars and run. God save this country if that is truly the wave of the future. We will then have become a nation that makes nothing but hamburgers, creates nothing but lawyers, and sells nothing but tax shelters. And if we are at that point in this country, where we kill something because at the moment it's worth more dead than alive - well, take a look around. Look at your neighbor. Look at your neighbor. You won't kill him, will you? No. It's called murder and it's illegal. Well, this too is murder - on a mass scale. Only on Wall Street, they call it maximizing share-holder value and they call it legal. And they substitute dollar bills where a conscience should be. Damn it! A business is worth more than the price of its stock. It's the place where we earn our living, where we meet our friends, dream our dreams. It is, in every sense, the very fabric that binds our society together. So let us now, at this meeting, say to every Garfield in the land, Here, we build things. We don't destroy them. Here, we care about more than the price of our stock! Here, we care about people. Thank you.

Atticus Finch To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place... It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses, whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. Now, there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten - savagely, by someone who led exclusively with his left. And Tom Robinson now sits before you having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses: his right. I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the State. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance. But my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake, which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt. Now I say "guilt," gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She's committed no crime - she has merely broken a rigid and time-honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. But what was the evidence of her offense? Tom Robinson, a human being. She must put Tom Robinson away from her. Tom Robinson was to her a daily reminder of what she did. Now, what did she do? She tempted a Negro. She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that, in our society, is unspeakable. She kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong, young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards. The witnesses for the State, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption, the evil assumption, that all Negroes lie, all Negroes are basically immoral beings, all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women. An assumption that one associates with minds of their calibre, and which is, in itself, gentlemen, a lie, which I do not need to point out to you. And so, a quiet, humble, respectable Negro, who has had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman, has had to put his word against two white people's! The defendant is not guilty - but somebody in this courtroom is. Now, gentlemen, in this country, our courts are the great levellers. In our courts, all men are created equal. I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system - that's no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality! Now I am confident that you gentlemen will review, without passion, the evidence that you have heard, come to a decision and restore this man to his family. In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe... Tom Robinson.

Princess Ann I'm a good liar too, aren't I, Mr. Bradley?

Joe Bradley The best I ever met.

Dr. Josef Mengele You are a clever boy. Are you not? You do not well at school, but it's because you are too clever. Too busy, thinking your own thoughts. But you are much smarter than your teachers, hah?

Bobby Wheelock My teachers are nowhere.

Dr. Josef Mengele You are going to be the world's greatest photographer, are you not? Have you ever felt superior to those around you? Like a prince among peasants?

Bobby Wheelock I feel different from everyone sometimes.

Dr. Josef Mengele You are infinitely different. Infinitely superior. You are born of the noblest blood in the world.

Mrs. Baylock I know this is a difficult time for you, so I'll not intrude on your grief. I'm here to take away some of your troubles and anxieties. We'll soon help your little boy to forget what's happened. I'm afraid, sir, that some of our young nannies, they get homesick, or they have boyfriend problems. I left all that behind a long time ago. Well, now, if you'll let me see your boy?

Katherine Thorn Well, yes, of course. He's upstairs. I'll show you where it is.

Mrs. Baylock Why don't you just leave us alone at first? Let us get acquainted in our own way.

Katherine Thorn Well, he's shy with new people.

Mrs. Baylock Oh, no. Not with me, he won't be.

Katherine Thorn I like her.

Robert Thorn She seems alright.

Katherine Thorn Where'd you find her?

Robert Thorn Where did I find her?

Katherine Thorn Yeah.

Robert Thorn I didn't find her. I assumed you found her.

Robert Thorn Are you sure that you don't wanna call a doctor?

Katherine Thorn No. It's just a couple of bruises. It'll be all right in the morning.

Robert Thorn No, I mean... for Damien.

Katherine Thorn Oh, no, he's fine. He's... he's sound asleep.

Robert Thorn Just... just to have him examine him.

Katherine Thorn Well, he's perfectly all right. Never been sick a day in his life.

Robert Thorn He never has, has he? Isn't that a little strange?

Katherine Thorn Is it?

Robert Thorn I mean, no measles or mumps or chickenpox. Not even a cough or a cold.

Katherine Thorn So?

Robert Thorn I just think it's a little unusual.

Katherine Thorn Look, he's a perfectly healthy boy. I mean, we have nothing to worry about with him. Not physically or... or otherwise. He just... had a bad moment. You know, like a fright.

Dr. Josef Mengele You are a clever boy, are you not? You do not well in school, but it's because you are too clever. Too busy, thinking your own thoughts. But you are much smarter than your teachers, huh?

Bobby Wheelock My teachers are nowhere.

Dr. Josef Mengele You are going to be the world's greatest photographer, are you not? Have you ever felt superior to those around you? Like a prince among peasants?

Bobby Wheelock I feel different from everyone sometimes.

Dr. Josef Mengele You are infinitely different. Infinitely superior! You were born of the noblest blood in the world! You have it within you to fulfil ambitions a thousand times greater than those of which you presently dream! And you shall fulfil them, Bobby! You shall! You are the living duplicate of the greatest man in history: Adolf Hitler.

Bobby Wheelock Oh man, you're weird.

Princess Ann This is very unusual. I've never been alone with a man before - even with my dress on. With my dress off, it's most unusual. I don't seem to mind. Do you?

Joe Bradley I think I'll go out for a cup of coffee. You'd better get to sleep. No, no, no. On this one.

Princess Ann How terribly nice.

Joe Bradley Hey - these are pajamas. They're to sleep in. You're to climb into them, you understand?...Then you do your sleeping on the couch, see. Not on the bed, not on the chair, on the couch. Is that clear?

Princess Ann I have to leave you now. I'm going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you.

Joe Bradley All right.

Princess Ann I don't know how to say goodbye. I can't think of any words.

Joe Bradley Don't try.

Anthony Keane Does the name of Margaret Wells convey anything to you?

Andre Latour Yes, sir.

Anthony Keane What does that name convey to you?

Anthony Keane Well, I must try to help your memory. I put it to you that some years ago you were engaged to Margaret Wells of Three Rivers, Quebec; that on your wedding day she left you at the church door and went off with a saddler named Richard Truton.

Andre Latour That is finished! That is in the past!

Judge Lord Thomas Horfield Your question may be relevant, Mr Keane; its ] escapes me.

Anthony Keane M'lord, I submit that the witness has shown, in his evidence and also in his behavior, an almost pathological bias against, not only my client, but against all women.

Judge Lord Thomas Horfield I may be stupid, but I fail to understand what this jilting has to do with the case; after seeing the witness and observing his appearance and bearing, I should be inclined to regard the young lady's conduct as pathological, not his.

Gertrud Get a doctor!

Dr. Josef Mengele I am a doctor, idiot.

Gertrud Don't you come near him!

Dr. Josef Mengele Shut up, you ugly bitch.

Princess Ann We spent the whole day doing things I've always wanted to. Why?

Joe Bradley I don't know. It seemed the thing to do.

Princess Ann I never heard of anybody so kind.

Joe Bradley It wasn't any trouble.

Princess Ann Also, completely unselfish.

Robert Thorn Yes, Father?

Father Brennan We haven't much time. You must listen to what I have to say.

Robert Thorn All right. What is it?

Father Brennan You must accept Christ as your saviour. You must accept him now.

Robert Thorn Forgive me, Father, but I understand that you have a matter of some urgent personal business?

Father Brennan You must take communion. Drink the blood of Christ and eat his flesh. Only if he is within you can you defeat the son of the devil.

Robert Thorn I see.

Father Brennan He's killed once, he'll kill again. He'll kill until everything that's yours is his.

Robert Thorn Father, would you mind...

Father Brennan Only through Christ can you fight him. Accept the Lord Jesus. Drink his blood. I've locked the door, Mr. Thorn.

Secretary Yes?

Robert Thorn Would you send for a security guard?

Father Brennan I beg you, Mr. Thorn. Listen to what I have to say.

Secretary Ambassador Thorn?

Father Brennan I was at the hospital, Mr. Thorn, the night your son was born. I witnessed the birth.

Secretary Sir?

Father Brennan I beg you.

Robert Thorn All right. Stand by. What do you want?

Father Brennan To save you, Mr. Thorn. So Christ will forgive me.

Robert Thorn What do you know about my son?

Father Brennan Everything.

Robert Thorn And what is that?

Father Brennan I saw its mother.

Robert Thorn You saw my wife.

Father Brennan I saw its mother.

Robert Thorn You're referring to my wife!

Father Brennan Its mother, Mr. Thorn.

Robert Thorn If this is blackmail, then come out and say it! What are you trying to say?

Father Brennan His mother was a ja-

Security Guard Everything all right, sir?

Secretary You sounded strange. The door was locked.

Robert Thorn I want this gentleman escorted out of here.

Security Guard Ok, let's go.

Father Brennan Accept Christ each day. Drink his blood.

Ezra Lieberman Did you kill Wheelock?

Dr. Josef Mengele No, he's in the kitchen mixing us some cocktails!

Princess Ann Now, I'd better get a taxi and go back.

Joe Bradley Well look, before you do, why don't you take a little time for yourself?

Princess Ann Maybe another hour.

Joe Bradley Live dangerously. Take the whole day.

Princess Ann I could do some of the things I've always wanted to.

Joe Bradley Like what?

Princess Ann Oh, you can't imagine. I-I'd do just whatever I liked all day long.

Dr. Josef Mengele He betrayed me, he betrayed you, he betrayed the Aryan race!

Princess Ann Is this the elevator?

Joe Bradley This is my ROOM!

John Ballantine That ] stuff's a bunch of hooey.

Dr. Alex Brulov Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! This you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.

Atticus Finch There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep em all away from you. That's never possible.

Robert Thorn If there were anything wrong, you'd... tell me, wouldn't you?

Katherine Thorn Wrong? What could be wrong with our child, Robert? We're beautiful people, aren't we?

Robert Thorn There is something wrong, isn't there? Kathy. Is it so serious?

Katherine Thorn Robert, I... I want... I need to see a psychiatrist. I... I have... fears. I have such fears.

Robert Thorn What kind of fears? What kind?

Katherine Thorn If I told you, you'd put me away.

Anthony Keane Is anyone living at the hall now?

Driver Only the caretaker, Mrs. Clarr - maybe Andre's back from London now. They say he knows more about the poor Colonel's death than he would tell. He's a queer one, all right.

Anthony Keane In what way?

Driver Oh, I don't know. He keeps himself to himself - perhaps that's because he's foreign. They never do seem quite the same, do they, sir?

Andre Latour I know why you wanted to see me - she sent you.

Anthony Keane She? Mrs. Paradine doesn't even know that I'm here. She had nothing to do with it.

Andre Latour It seems I'm wrong then.

Anthony Keane Why would she send me?

Andre Latour She might have her reasons.

Anthony Keane I don't know what they might be.

Andre Latour But perhaps you don't know her as I do.

Anthony Keane Mrs. Paradine is my client. I know her as her lawyer, that's sufficient for me.

Andre Latour You may not think it, but you're on the wrong side, sir, and I tell you so.

Anthony Keane What do you mean exactly by that? You'd better make yourself clear.

Andre Latour Excuse me, sir. You have only known Mrs. Paradine since she is in prison. Is it not so?

Anthony Keane Yes.

Andre Latour Then how can you know her? If you did, I should not need to tell you that only Almighty God or the black Devil himself knows what's going on in that head of hers.

Anthony Keane I won't hear anything more against her.

Andre Latour I know what I'm talking about; what I say is true. I know her. And I will tell you one thing more, I will tell you about Mrs. Paradine - she's bad, bad to the bone! If ever there was an evil woman, she is one.

Anthony Keane Would you mind getting out of here? I don't want any dirty, lying sneaks in my room. Get out!

Andre Latour Very good, sir, as you wish. If you would allow me, sir, I'm very sorry for you - and God help you.