A Quote by Morley Safer

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

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Morley Safer
Canadian - Journalist
November 8, 1931 - May 19, 2016

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

Vincente Minnelli

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

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

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

Maximilian Schell

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

Wesley Morris

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

Katharine Hepburn

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

Robert Wagner

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

Phil Silvers

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

Joseph Bologna

The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

J. C. Chandor

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Danny Bonaduce

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.

Jeremy Hardy

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

If I am to be remembered for anything I have done in this profession, I would like it to be for the four films in which I directed Spencer Tracy.

Stanley Kramer

People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.