Quote by Spencer Tracy Download Open image “Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.” — Spencer Tracy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Learn your lines, find your mark, look 'em in the eye and tell 'em the truth. — James Cagney Copy Share Image
I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
I can't learn lines comfortably unless I have it done out loud with someone else. — Rick Hoffman Copy Share Image
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it? — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
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,… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors.… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else. — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is. — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
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… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
