Quotes About Spencer Tracy

#1. I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.

Katharine Hepburn

#2. How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy.

Lauren Bacall

#3. I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Danny Bonaduce

#4. Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

Phil Silvers

#5. Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

William Shatner

#6. People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

Jackie Cooper

#7. I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

Vincente Minnelli

#8. I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

Robert Blake

#9. There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

Alfred Molina

#10. I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.

Basil Rathbone

#11. I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

Pierce Brosnan

#12. The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

J. C. Chandor

#13. I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

Lauren Bacall

#14. If I am to be remembered for anything I have done in this profession, I would like it to be for the four films in which I directed Spencer Tracy.

Stanley Kramer

#15. When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson

#16. I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.

Jeremy Hardy

#17. The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

Michael Caine

#18. My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

Joseph Bologna

#19. When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

Morley Safer

#20. I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

Maximilian Schell

#21. When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

Eddie Marsan

#22. The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

Wesley Morris

#23. Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

Joyce DeWitt

#24. Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow ... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

Kevin Spacey

#25. I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

Robert Wagner

#26. I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.

Bob Newhart

#27. Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.

John Agar

#28. Acting to me is always reacting.

Spencer Tracy

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

Spencer Tracy

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Spencer Tracy

#33. Concentrate, don't embroider.

Spencer Tracy

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

Spencer Tracy

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

Spencer Tracy

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Spencer Tracy