Spencer Tracy movie quotes

“Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.”
Spencer Tracy

“What's the trouble about that? That fine way. The Savior, He take my father up to fishermen's Heaven - with all his old friends.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: Why is it, my old friend, that you've moved so far away from me?
- Henry Drummond: All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.”
Spencer Tracy

“Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.”
Spencer Tracy

“- Harvey: You can't write songs.
- Manuel: I don't write them. I just find them in my mouth.”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“Songs about the sun and the sea. Songs about the clouds. Big songs - about the wind and the storms. And little songs too - about the tip on my mother's nose. Oh, my father, he feel beautiful inside.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Harvey: People learn songs. Songs aren't just inside of people like that.
- Manuel: Sometimes a song so big and sweet inside, I just can't get them out. And then I look up at stars and maybe cry, it feels so good.”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“The world is yours, my darling, but the moment is mine!”

Spencer Tracy - Mr. Edward Hyde

“We all got to be ashamed once. So we don't do things again when we got be ashamed of.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“There's a place in my heart for the one I love best, and I still have her picture tattooed on my chest.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Harvey: A song can't be any good like that! When you just make it up.
- Manuel: That's best kind songs. When you feel good inside, like trade winds, she just come out.”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Harvey: Do you think they really fish in heaven?
- Manuel: Well, sure they fish in heaven. What else they do?”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“He teach me how to fish, how to sail boat! He give me arms and hands and feet, feeling good outside and he teach me how to feel good inside!”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Henry Drummond: Ever been in love Hornbeck?
- E. K. Hornbeck: Only with the sound of my own words, thank God.”
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond
Gene Kelly - E. K. Hornbeck

“The Bible is a book. It's a good book, but it is not the only book.”
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands.”
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: I do not think about things I do not think about.
- Henry Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do think about?”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone, but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price: you lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer... (continue)(continue reading)
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: We must not abandonfaith! Faith is the most important thing!
- Henry Drummond: Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think?”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“- Beryl Caighn: She tried to shoot me.
- Adam Bonner: How do you know that?
- Beryl Caighn: Because she did.”

Jean Hagen - Beryl Caighn
Spencer Tracy - Adam Bonner

“About 150 years ago, an idea took shape in the mind of a man named DeWitt Clinton. And in the way Americans have of acting out their dreams, it came to be.”

Spencer Tracy - Narrated by

“This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But, the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man.”

Spencer Tracy - Narrated by

“Right then I knew we'd lost her. She'll always love us of course, but not in the old way. From now on her love will be handed out like a farmer's wife tossing scraps to the family rooster.”

Spencer Tracy - Stanley T. Banks

“I would like to say a few words about weddings. I've just been through one. Not my own. My daughter's. Someday in the far future I may be able to remember it with tender indulgence, but not now. I always used to think that marriages were a simple affair. Boy meets girl. Fall in love. They get married. Have babies. Eventually the babies grow up...” (continue)(continue reading)
Spencer Tracy - Stanley T. Banks