Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Gregory Peck

Oldtime heartthrob Gregory Peck was born 90 years ago today. Nominated for the Best Actor Oscar five times, Peck won in 1962 for his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. The American Film Institute voted Atticus Finch the greatest cinema hero of all time in their special feature, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains. Peck usually played upstanding, stalwart, and honorable men, but forayed into darker territory with his acclaimed role as a sadistic Nazi doctor in The Boys From Brazil.

Quote: "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. " – Gregory Peck

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