________________________________ SPENCER TRACY QUOTES ________________________________ "Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture." "Hell, I used to take two-week lunch hours!" "I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors, Why, I'd probably kill the actors, not to mention some of the beautiful actresses." "I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality." "It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it." "Not much meat on her, but what's there is cherce." "Concentrate, don't embroider." "This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?” "For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.” "There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails." On being asked why he was always billed above Katharine Hepburn in their films together, when politeness dictated the other way around: "Because this is a movie, you chowderhead, not a lifeboat!" "The kids keep telling me I should try this new "Method Acting" but I'm too old, I'm too tired and I'm too talented to care." On why he never left his wife for Katherine Hepburn: "I can get a divorce whenever I want to. But my wife and Kate like things just as they are." MORE COMING SOON ________________________________ Go back to index