James Stewart Zitate

As quoted in "Innocent Revisited" in TIME magazine (29 June 1970)
Kontext: 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.

As quoted in "Innocent Revisited" in TIME magazine (29 June 1970)
Kontext: 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.

On roles he looks for, as quoted in "Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart dead at 89" at CNN (2 July 1997) http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9707/02/stewart.obit.7p/

His last words http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/s/Jimmy%20Stewart/jimmy_stewart.htm, about his wife Gloria, who had died in 1994, as quoted in "Morbid Fascination" by Emily Yoffe in Slate (4 December 1997) http://www.slate.com/id/2724

A definition of good acting, given in an interview on WNET TV (13 March 1987); sometimes quoted as "It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

As quoted in The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywood (2004) by Skip Press, p. 199

As quoted in "Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart dead at 89" at CNN (2 July 1997)