[on Jean Harlow] A square shooter if ever there was one.

"Actors have no damn place in politics, period."

"Why do actors think they`re so God damn important? They`re not. Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is."

"Write anything you want about me. Make up something. Hell, I don`t care."

"The physical labor actors have to do wouldn`t tax an embryo."

"There were times when my pants were so thin, I could sit on a dime and know if it was heads or tails."

"Even when my throat is completely tired out from acting, Luckies still get along with it fine."

"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."

"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".

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

On why he never left his wife for Katharine Hepburn: "I can get a divorce whenever I want to. But my wife and Kate like things just as they are".

"The kids keep telling me I should try this new "Method Acting" but I`m too old, I`m too tired and I`m too talented to care."

"Spencer Tracy, you`re the best damn actor there is!" -- George M. Cohan.

On being asked why he was always billed above Katharine Hepburn in their films together, when politeness dictated the other way around: "Because this is a movie, you chowder-head, not a lifeboat!".

"What do we need another galoot for? We`ve already got Wallace Beery" -- Louis B. Mayer, upon finding out that Irving Thalberg had hired Tracy to join MGM.

"Whenever I`m asked what my definition of a professional is in our business, I tell `em to go talk to Spence" -- Clark Gable.

"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. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses."

On drinking: "Hell, I used to take two-week lunch hours!"

On acting: "Come to work on time, know your lines and don`t bump into the other actors."