Spencer Tracy Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's.

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#5. Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

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#6. Concentrate, don't embroider.

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#7. I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

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#11. Acting to me is always reacting.

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