Spencer Tracy quotes:

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.

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

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

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.

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

Acting to me is always reacting.

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.

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 Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own

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