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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• Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!

  Bill Walton

  Funny, Basketball, Planets

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• Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.

  John Agar

  Drinking, Trouble, Wayne

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• I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Done

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• I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

  Robert Wagner

  Kids, Europe, Thrill

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• I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

  Robert Wagner

  Business, People, Good People

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• Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

  Phil Silvers

  Kramer, Turns, Stanley

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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 three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

  Michael Caine

  Three, Actors, Natural

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• I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Enemy, Naked, Shields

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes”

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• Are they real fires? Or are people just reacting to something? Just because there’s an alarm going doesn’t mean it’s a fire. And I think that people are confusing the two. It’s only a fire when it offends the fans, and the fans turn on you. Tosh has fans, and they get the joke. If you’ve watched enough Tracy Morgan, you let the worst thing go by. When did Tracy Morgan become Walter Cronkite? You have to mean something to me to offend me. You can’t break up with me if we don’t date.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

  Michael J. Fox

  Husband, Challenges, Patient

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

  Ryan Gosling

  Growing Up, Kids, Boys

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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Thinking, Interesting

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• Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

  William Shatner

  Jobs, Men, Doe

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• This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

  Terry Pratchett

  Calling, Said, Being Cool

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• This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.

  Jasper Fforde

  Sibling, Self, Personality

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• Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

  Tracy Morgan

  Party, Rain, Mean

  "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.

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• I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Movie Love, Goes On, Lists

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Team, Opportunity

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, "Aren't you tired of always playing Tracy?" Tracy replied, "What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?" You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

  LeBron James

  Tired, Play, Suits You

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• How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...

  Lauren Bacall

  Art, March, Grants

  Hosting a Carnegie Hall tribute to Myrna Loy, as quoted in "The New York Times", January 16, 1985.

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• I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

  Vincente Minnelli

  People, Awful, Hepburn

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

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• I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host Saturday Night Live.

  Tracy Morgan

  Thinking, Night, People

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2007.

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