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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• 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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• 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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• Once I finally stepped on the moon, no matter what was to come of the next three days - or the rest of my life - nobody could take those steps from me. People ask how long will they be there, and I say forever, however long forever is, like my daughter’s initials that I scribbled in the sand [TDC for Tracy Dawn Cernan].

  Gene Cernan

  Daughter, Moon, Long

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• As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.

  Stephen Holden

  Pride, Games, Two

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• I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.

  Ian Shoales

  Love, Juliet, Bogart

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• A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.

  Ryan Knighton

  Lying, Night, Decision

  Ryan Knighton (2010). “C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark”, p.9, Knopf Canada

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• When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

  Morley Safer

  Widows, Alive, Interviews

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

  Bill Walton

  Funny, Basketball, Planets

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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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• 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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• Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Fire, Eight, Rocks

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• Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Eye, Leader, Insanity

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.57, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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