Top 48 Cary Grant Quotes
#1. And there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
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#2. I think that making love is the best form of exercise.
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#3. My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
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#4. I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant
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#5. To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
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#6. There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
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#7. Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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#8. I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them.
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#9. Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
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#10. When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
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#11. Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.
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#12. When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.
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#13. It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.
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#14. I'm a fatheaded guy, full of pain. It tore me up not having you.
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#15. There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
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#16. It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
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#17. Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
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#18. I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.
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#19. Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
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#20. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.
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#21. Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.
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#22. Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.
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#23. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
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#24. One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
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#25. Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.
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#26. Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.
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#27. I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.
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#28. I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.
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#29. Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.
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#30. All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better
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#31. A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.
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#32. Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.
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#33. My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.
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#34. There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.
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#35. It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
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#36. I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.
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#37. I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.
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#38. Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?
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#39. I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.
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#40. Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I.
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#41. If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.
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#42. Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.
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#43. We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.
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#44. We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.
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#45. To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
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#46. I was a fat-headed guy full of pain.
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#47. I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.
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#48. The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.
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