Spencer Tracy quotes
- La trovi in Gossip
“Write anything you want about me. Make up something. Hell, I don't care.”
- La trovi in Insults
“I'm too tired and old and rich for all this, so let's do the scene.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“There were times when my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and know if it was heads or tails.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“A square shooter if ever there was one.”
- From the movie: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“- Ivy Peterson: What are you going to do?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Something so simple. I'm going to put an end to all that confusion.” - La trovi in Career in Cinema
The kids keep telling me I should try this new "method acting" but I'm too old, I'm too tired, and I'm too talented to care.
“Joanna, this may be the last opportunity I have to tell you to do anything, so I'm telling you, shut up!”
You could try to ignore those people, or you could feel sorry for them and for their prejudice and their bigotry and their blind hatred and stupid fears, but where necessary you'll just have to cling tight to each other and say "Screw all those people!".
“You're two wonderful people who happened to fall in love and happened to have a pigmentation problem.”
- From the movie: Edison, the Man
“- Mr. Taggart: We've no guarantee that these theories of yours are workable.
- Thomas A. Edison: Well, most electricity is theory yet.” - From the movie: The Seventh Cross
“There are no better men than Paul Roeder.”
- From the movie: San Francisco
“Nothing can harm you if you don't allow it to because nothing in the world, no one in the world, is all bad.”
- From the movie: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
When you went to see the good doctor, before you left you said "I almost thought". What did you think? Maybe that you saw a little bit of me, Hyde, in him?
“The only thing that matters is what they feel, and how much they feel, for each other.”
- From the movie: San Francisco
“You're in probably the wickedest, most corrupt city, most Godless city in America. Sometimes it frightens me. I wonder what the end's going to be.”
- From the movie: Woman of the Year
“- Tess Harding: I'm going to be your wife. You don't think that I can do the little ordinary things that any idiot can do, do you?
- Sam Craig: No.
- Tess Harding: Why not?
- Sam Craig: Because you're incapable of doing them, that's why.” - From the movie: Edison, the Man
“Where John made his mistake I think was in attaching so much importance to what her mother and I might think... because in the final analysis it doesn't matter a damn what we think.”
- From the movie: Woman of the Year
“- Sam Craig: I love you.
- Tess Harding: You do?
- Sam Craig: Positive.
- Tess Harding: That's nice. Even when I'm sober?
- Sam Craig: Even when you're brilliant.” - From the movie: Edison, the Man
“- Thomas A. Edison: We failed again. That's the net result of nine thousand experiments.
- Michael Simon: We know the work you have done. We are as sorry as you are that you didn't get results.” - From the movie: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
“If a girl is six-feet-five inches tall, she's bound to have special problems.”
- From the movie: Boom Town
“He knows it took billions of years to put it there, and taking it out at the rate we're going, there won't be any oil left in the good U.S.A.”
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