[on Spencer Tracy] What an actor should be is exemplified, for me, by him. I like the reality of his acting. It`s so honest and seems so effortless, even though what Tracy does is the result of damn hard work and extreme concentration. Actually, the ultim...
Richard Widmark
[on Burt Reynolds] It`s the man`s tremendous wit that just keeps coming across. Listen, there is no acting style. Most people just play themselves. Spencer Tracy used to say to me after a scene, "Did I ham that one up?" If I said yes, he`d say, "Okay, let...
Myrna Loy
We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie (Humphrey Bogart), James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart (James Stewart).
Lauren Bacall
I`m a Spencer Tracy-type actor. His idea was to be on time, know your words, hit your marks and tell the truth. Most every actor tries to make it something it isn`t [or] looks for the easy way out. I don`t think acting is that difficult if you can put you...
James Garner
Spencer Tracy was the first actor I`ve seen who could just look down into the dirt and command a scene. He played a set-up with Robert Ryan that way. He`s looking down at the road and then he looks at Ryan at just the precise, right minute. I tell you, Ro...
Ernest Borgnine
[On playing her part of Claire Spencer in What Lies Beneath (2000)] "I thought about Drew Barrymore in the first Scream (1996/I) - I mean, ultimately that movie was more funny than scary, but the opening sequence was quite terrifying, and she portrayed te...
Michelle Pfeiffer
In our film profession you may have [Clark Gable`s] looks, [Spencer Tracy`s] art, [Marlene Dietrich`s] legs or [Elizabeth Taylor`s] violet eyes, but they don`t mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Frank Capra
I admire people like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Spencer Tracy, who seem to be so very real-I don`t know how they do it. When I was young I admired Leslie Howard enormously, in films like The Scarlet Pimpernel, Gone With the Wind, and Pygmal...
Max Sydow
A character actor to me was someone who played a bunch of different roles versus a leading man or supporting actor, I wanted to be a character actor and do good parts. The guys that inspired me were Spencer Tracy, Robert Duvall, Albert Finney and Michael ...
Joe Pantoliano
Where can we find the great actors we had yesteryear, guys like Spencer Tracy and Gary Cooper and Edward G. Robinson? You know, I was talking to Lee Marvin the other day and we agreed that we were the last of a breed. We`re the last who had the opportunit...
Ernest Borgnine
There was that very credible virility of guys like Spencer Tracy or Humphrey Bogart. I don`t think that I could one day resemble them, but in life and in movies I profoundly admired Bogart, both personally and professionally.
Lee Marvin
[on Spencer Tracy] The guy`s good. There`s nobody in the business who can touch him, and you`re a fool to try. And the bastard knows it, so don`t fall for that humble stuff!
Clark Gable
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. - Spencer Tracy.
Gene Tierney
Who doesn`t wear M&S underwear? They`ve been `supporting` me for years and now I`m glad I`ve got a suit to wear as well. Marks & Spencer is a great British institution and I am very happy to be associated with it.
Jimmy Carr
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
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
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
We`ve suffered a tremendous loss. Spencer was more than a kind person. He never had an enemy and was an exceptional brother, father, husband and son.
James Morrison
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
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
It`s funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I`m not in the first episode, but he`s at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of We...
Stockard Channing
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
[So why did Romar start pumping his fist upon hearing Hawes` words ... and then emit an audible sigh of relief? Because there`s another perspective on Spencer Hawes -- the one seen by the greater college basketball world, to whom Hawes` defining biographi...
Greg Oden
[On Sunday morning, following the destruction of the water line, the Rev. Tom Jimison of Central United Methodist Church in Spencer furiously preached in favor of the strikers. He prayed for railroad employees and their families and asked God to lead mana...
Anita Erhardt
[on Spencer Tracy] What an actor should be is exemplified, for me, by him. I like the reality of his acting. It`s so honest and seems so effortless, even though what Tracy does is the result of damn hard work and extreme concentration. Actually, the ultim...
Richard Widmark
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