- On acting: "Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
- On drinking: "Hell, I used to take two-week lunch hours!"
- 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.
- "Whenever I'm asked what my definition of a professional is in our business, I tell 'em to go talk to Spence" -- Clark Gable.
- "What do we need another galoot for? We've already got Wallace Beery" -- Louis B. Mayer, upon finding out that Irving Thalberg had hired Tracy to join MGM.
- 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 chowder-head, not a lifeboat!".
- "Spencer Tracy, you're the best damn actor there is!" -- George M. Cohan.
- 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 Katharine Hepburn: "I can get a divorce whenever I want to. But my wife and Kate like things just as they are".
- This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay thirty-five cents to look at it?
- "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.
- Even when my throat is completely tired out from acting, Luckies still get along with it fine.
- There were times when my pants were so thin, I could sit on a dime and know if it was heads or tails.
- The physical labor actors have to do wouldn't tax an embryo.
- Write anything you want about me. Make up something. Hell, I don't care.
- Why do actors think they're so God damn important? They're not. Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
- Actors have no damn place in politics, period.
- [on Jean Harlow] A square shooter if ever there was one.
- Although she was beautiful in her films, they couldn't quite capture all of her. Fortunately, I did even if it was late in my life. - On Gene Tierney
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