Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
Spencer Tracy
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
Spencer Tracy
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
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
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.