"Spencer Bonaventure Tracy" was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility. One of the major stars of Classic Hollywood cinema/Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Actor/Best Actor and won two, sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier.

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Not much meat on her, but what's there is cherce.

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I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

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This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

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It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

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Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

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Learn your lines and don't trip over the furniture.

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Concentrate, don't embroider.

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This is a movie, not a lifeboat.

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