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.

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

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

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.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

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