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Audrey Hepburn
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Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Every script I`m offered has Cary Grant`s paw prints on it. I am a Roman Catholic. Not a fanatic, but I practice enough to keep the franchise. I don`t always agree with the Pope . . . there are issues that concern me, like abortion, contraception, the ordination of women . . . and others. I think the Church should open up.
I don`t lecture and I don`t grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
I realize now how very short life is, because I`ve got to be considered to be in the home stretch. But I won`t waste time on recriminations and regrets. And the same goes for my shortcomings and my own failures.
I`m not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
I`ve had my ups and downs. There have been times when I wanted to quit. Times when I hit the bottle. Marital problems. I`ve touched most of the bases.
You made the right choice, kiddo! - his tongue-in-cheek response when he discovered that his second wife, French journalist Veronique Passani, had passed up an opportunity to interview Albert Schweitzer at a lunch hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to go out on a date with Peck.
[on gay rights] "It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all."
Trivia
He was a close friend of Humphrey Bogart, and visited him regularly during Bogart`s illness. Peck was reportedly devastated by the star`s death in January 1957.
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He was a lifelong opponent of nuclear weapons, and made On the Beach (1959) for this reason.
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His mother died in May 1992 at the age of 97.
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Appeared on President Richard Nixon`s infamous "List of Enemies" in 1972.
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As a board member of Handgun Control Inc. (along with Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon), Peck was sometimes criticized for his friendship with Charlton Heston, a longtime advocate of gun ownership who served as President of the National Rifle Assocation (NRA) from 1998 to 2003. When questioned by James Brady, Peck said, "We`re colleagues rather than friends. We`re civil to each other when we meet. I, of course, disagree vehemently with him on gun control.".
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He did not get along with director Elia Kazan while filming Gentleman`s Agreement (1947). Kazan told the press he was very disappointed with Peck`s performance and the two men never worked together again.
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He was given the role of Ambassador Robert Thorn in The Omen (1976) after Charlton Heston turned it down in order to make Midway (1976).
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His favorite drink was Guinness, which he drank every day. Eventually he had a tap installed in the bar at his house.
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He was a close friend of Jane Fonda, and frequently attended political rallies with her.
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He was a close friend of Michael Jackson for the last 25 years of his life, and often went horse riding with the singer at his Neverland Ranch. During the Jordie Chandler scandal in 1993, Peck wrote a letter defending Jackson. He also gave a glowing video tribute to Jackson at his 30th Anniversary concert in New York in 2001.
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He was an active supporter of AIDS fund raising.
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In 1947, at the beginning of the anti-communist investigations in Hollywood, Peck signed a letter deploring the witch hunts despite being warned his signature could hurt his career.
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In 1999 he supported the decision to give Elia Kazan an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, saying he believed that a man`s work should be separate from his life.
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Attended San Diego High School.
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Cited that his favorite leading ladies were Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, and Ava Gardner.
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He had always wanted to do a Walt Disney movie.
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He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, while remaining supportive of his son who was serving there.
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He was of English, Irish, Scottish and Armenian heritage.
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A back injury incurred in college kept him out of the services in World War II.
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He took in former co-star Ava Gardner`s housekeeper and dog after her death in 1990.
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His character from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Atticus Finch, was voted the greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute in May 2003, only two weeks before his death (beating out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third).
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His earliest movie memory is of being so scared by The Phantom of the Opera (1925) at age 9 that his grandmother allowed him to sleep in the bed with her that night.
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His paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was an immigrant from County Kerry, Ireland. She was a relative of Thomas Ashe, an Irish patriot who fought the in Easter Rising in 1916 and died on hunger strike the following year.
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Honorary chair, Los Angeles Library Foundation. [1995]
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Marched with Martin Luther King.
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National Chairman, American Cancer Society. [1966]
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Stating he was worried about the 600,000 jobs hanging on the survival of the Chrysler Corporation, he volunteered to become an unpaid TV pitchman for the company in 1980.
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Was the first native Californian to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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