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
Voice, Want, Noses, None
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
Wait, Give, May, Resentful
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
Mind, Give, Profession, Noblest
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
- Spencer Tracy
Important, Things, Scheme, Important Job
Concentrate, don't embroider.
- Spencer Tracy
Concentrate
Acting to me is always reacting.
- Spencer Tracy
Me, Acting, Always, Reacting
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
- Spencer Tracy
Door, Why, Mine, Barn
Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
- Spencer Tracy
Know, Bump, Your, Furniture
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
Director, Why, Some, Mention
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