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Quotes by Spencer Tracy

“I lose my temper, but its all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!”

“Im disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. Its become so much about personality.”

“Learn your lines and dont trip over the furniture”

“Not much meat on her, but whats there is cherce.”

“Concentrate, dont embroider.”

“It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesnt, and when it does, we may well reject it.”

“Know your lines and dont bump into the furniture.”

“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 Deucalions little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.”

“This is a movie, not a lifeboat.”

Just know your lines and dont bump into the furniture.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Just learn your lines and dont bump into the furniture.

I couldnt be a director because I couldnt put up with the actors. I dont have the patience. Why, Id probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.