Spencer Tracy Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Concentrate, don't embroider.

"I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!"

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.

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.

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

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

Trivia

Spencer was a supporter of the U.S. Democratic Party.

In 2006, Spencer's performance as "Henry Drummond" in

Spencer's son John was deaf, and because of this his wife set up the John Tracy Clinic to help deaf people.

Empire magazine ranked Spencer at No.64 on their list of "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time".

Even though Tracy had a relationship with

Spencer had two children; John and Louise Tracy.

Spencer enlisted in the Navy in 1917 during World War I but never saw action as he remained at Norfolk Navy Yard in Virginia for the duration of the war.

In 1923, Spencer married Louise Treadwell, the founder of the John Tracy Clinic, and they remained married until his death in 1967.