Spencer Tracy Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Spencer Tracy:

Concentrate, don't embroider.
~Spencer Tracy


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#4d39ee9f

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#242b6dce

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#40f6bbcf

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.
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#38d84d5d

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#abace777

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#a8036b8b

Acting to me is always reacting.
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#82661dea

Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#08ea32ff

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.
~Spencer Tracy


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/spencer-tracy-quotes/#0dd1b41c

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