Top 100 Cary's Quotes
#1. My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.
Jennifer Grant
#3. Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
Cary Fukunaga
#4. Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#6. Casting directors I don't think are the best in Mexico at street casting. Whereas, I think, in New York and in L.A., that's more common; not so in Mexico. So it's up to you as a director in a lot of ways to go out and do that.
Cary Fukunaga
#7. I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
Cary Elwes
#8. I definitely pay attention to details. I think one of the hardest things about making a movie is that it can be scrutinized over and over again. If anything just isn't right, it's going to take you out of the film.
Cary Fukunaga
#9. All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better
Cary Grant
#10. Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
Aaron Eckhart
#11. Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike, you're always learning new things, you're gonna face new challenges and when you face new challenges you'll have an answer for them.
Cary Fukunaga
#12. A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
Peter Temple
#13. It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.
Cary Elwes
#14. I think about a Richard Avedon photo series, the kind of faces he gets of real people, which I find so captivating. Fellini was also great in filling his films with this ambiance, this environment, sometimes chaotic and carnival-like, but people's faces were always amazing.
Cary Fukunaga
#15. Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the experience.
Cary Fukunaga
#16. Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.
Alice Cary
#17. Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#18. I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.
Cary Ann Hearst
#19. Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.
Cary Grant
#20. I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#21. Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.
Claudia Gray
#22. The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.
Ray Wise
#23. I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.
Cary Fukunaga
#24. I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.
Cary Fukunaga
#25. 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
Cary Grant
#26. Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
Cary Fukunaga
#27. When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.
Cary Fukunaga
#28. There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.
Kate Cary
#29. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Joyce Cary
#30. Home mortgage - If you pay one extra month's mortgage (write, "Principal only" on the check and send a note to the lender), you will take seven years off a thirty-year mortgage.
Cary Siegel
#31. There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.
Alfred Molina
#32. But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.
Lorene Cary
#33. I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
Cary Fukunaga
#34. It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.
Cary Fukunaga
#35. Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.
Cary Fukunaga
#36. There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary
#37. There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.
Cary Grant
#38. I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
Cary Fukunaga
#39. When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#40. It's hard because there's a part of me that wants 'True Detective' to win every award we're nominated for. But I'm a huge fan of 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.'
Cary Fukunaga
#41. I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#42. A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.
Leslie Meier
#43. Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#44. It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.
Cary Fukunaga
#45. I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.
Jennifer Grant
#46. But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
Neil LaBute
#47. If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.
Cary Fukunaga
#48. I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.
Dennis Farina
#49. The only topic you could not get Andre' to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don't know if in Andre's case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler's code of never giving away trade secrets.
Cary Elwes
#50. If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.
Kate Cary
#51. I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.
Cary Elwes
#52. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
Karolyn Grimes
#53. My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
Tony Goldwyn
#54. Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.
Kate Cary
#55. Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me.
Cary Fukunaga
#56. I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
Cary Elwes
#57. Something you have to make ... It's all work, work.
Joyce Cary
#58. Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face ...
Phoebe Cary
#59. I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#60. Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.
Cary Elwes
#61. An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.
Cary Fukunaga
#62. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.
Phoebe Cary
#63. Indonesia is home to the cobra burger, which isn't just a catchy name: it's made with real cobra meat.
Cary McNeal
#64. That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#65. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.
Cary Fukunaga
#66. Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.
Jennifer Grant
#67. I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.
Cary Fukunaga
#68. The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.
Cary Elwes
#69. Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.
Phoebe Cary
#70. The Japanese island of Okunoshima, also called "Rabbit Island" after the many furry inhabitants who live there, was once home to Japan's poison gas factories. The rabbits are descendants of ones used for chemical testing during World War II.
Cary McNeal
#71. They're always surprised with what I want to do and don't want to do. I think they're surprised I don't want to do robo-tech. I don't know, it's like they want me to have a long career. And be prolific and make big movies.
Cary Fukunaga
#72. Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
The burdens laid upon our mortal being
Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.
Phoebe Cary
#73. There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
Cary Elwes
#74. New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.
Cary Fukunaga
#75. 'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.
Cary Fukunaga
#76. 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?
Cary Grant
#77. In terms of tackling different subjects, I can't really think of anything I wouldn't want to try; that's the fun of it right? Each new style brings new challenges - not that you shouldn't focus on one and master it, but it takes so long to make a film, you just want to have some variety.
Cary Fukunaga
#78. The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
Cary Fowler
#79. I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.
Jean Arthur
#80. Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
Joyce Cary
#81. I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#82. It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job.
Cary Fukunaga
#83. Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.
Cary Grant
#84. I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.
Tom Wolfe
#85. There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance;
else noise of wars would unmake heaven.
Alice Cary
#86. There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film ...
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#87. Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Cary Grant
#88. Kingsley Lake, or "Silver Dollar Lake," is almost a perfect circle, spanning nearly two thousand acres with a surprising depth of ninety feet. The reason for the popular lake's unique shape and depth? It is one of Florida's many sinkholes.
Cary McNeal
#89. Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
Fay Wray
#90. Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
Cary Fukunaga
#91. I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras.
Cary Fukunaga
#92. There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
Cary Grant
#93. I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
Cary Elwes
#94. No, ramen's not good for you. But in Japan, our favorite thing to do after drinking all night, especially in Sapporo where it's freezing cold, is to go to the ramen place at two, three in the morning.
Cary Fukunaga
#95. There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling. It didn't necessarily have to move the plot forward, but it had to add tone or add to the overall feeling.
Cary Fukunaga
#96. I like to have a good experience. That's all you have.
Cary Elwes
#97. Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#98. There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.
Cary Fukunaga
#99. It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.
Cary Grant
#100. It's been said that everything rises and falls on leadership, and the best type of leader, is a servant leader. For me, my life as a kingmaker includes serving
Cary Hokama
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