Tracy Quotes

• Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

  Tina Fey

  Rocks, Self, People

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket.

  Tina Fey

  Apology, Gay, Rocks

  "Tina Fey: Tracy Morgan is 'not a hateful man'". content.usatoday.com. June 11, 2011.

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• All my roles are character roles. On the other hand, there are those people who have an inner...I think we all do the same thing. You can't get by on aura alone. That I know. Everyone has to dig in. Everyone has to do the same set of, "What is this about? What is this character doing?" Everybody from Spencer Tracy to Brad Pitt to Jeffrey Tambor.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

  Wesley Morris

  Son, Law, Two

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• We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Thinking, Years

  People magazine, p. 49, March 7-14, 1994.

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• There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

  Alfred Molina

  Italian, Actors, Inspired

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Exercise, Groups, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Growing Up, Play, Interesting

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with 'Three's Company' and Miss Abigail's Guide Star Joyce DeWitt". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. June 17, 2011.

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• It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen.

  Tracy Anderson

  Light, Long, Giving

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• I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

  Danny Bonaduce

  School, Acting, Bumps

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• In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

  Frank Capra

  Art, Mean, Eye

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.

  Katharine Hepburn

  School, Character, Essence

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• Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

  Kevin Spacey

  Unique, Men, Actors

  "Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey snaps at theatre-goer after mobile phone rings during performance" by Anthony Bond, www.mirror.co.uk. June 04, 2014.

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• People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

  Cesar Romero

  People, Trying, Looks

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• Paternalistic is a very good word. They think they have to look out for these guys? Don't worry about it. Why? Because of history. Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant. They did okay.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Thinking, Worry, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I did easy yoga and I found it a bit boring. I'm now doing a more difficult one now and I'm enjoying it a bit more. I occasionally still work out with my trainer Tracy Anderson.

  Lara Stone

  Yoga, Work Out, Boring

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

  Drew Barrymore

  Littles, Homework

  "Director's Cut: Best Coast: 'Our Deal'". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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• When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Eye, Thinking

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• Tracy Morgan apologizes for his homophobic rant, still no apologies for the sketch about the guy living under the street.

  Andy Kindler

  Apology, Guy, Apologizing

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• I don't know what Tracy Morgan does on stage, but I can assure you it's no act.

  Andy Kindler

  Doe, Stage, Knows

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• I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I do Tracy Anderson's dance aerobics classes.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Class, Week, Cardio

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• I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's like peas rolling off a knife. Take the great screen actors and actresses, Bette Davis, Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy. They all talk in rhythm. And rhythm and movement are the life of the screen.

  Lorenz Hart

  Thinking, Knives, Rolling

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• The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."

  Michael Schur

  Running, Animal, Air

  Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Team, School, Class

  Interview with Rachel Rosenblit, www.elle.com. July 31, 2009.

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• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Guitar, Play

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