Top 100 Quotes About Cary

#1. As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

Cary Fukunaga

#2. 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

#3. Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

Cary Fukunaga

#4. The Black Pirate,

Cary Elwes

#5. '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

#6. New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

Cary Fukunaga

#7. Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

David Hockney

#8. I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

Cary Fukunaga

#9. I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

Andre Benjamin

#10. There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Cary Elwes

#11. I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Cary Grant

#12. Once you get very clear about the things that are the most important to you in your life, those things that truly give meaning and purpose to your existence, purging and de-cluttering will become a natural process.

Cary David Richards

#13. Friedrich Bischinger, has gained notoriety by recommending that kids eat their boogers to help strengthen their immune systems.

Cary McNeal

#14. 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

#15. Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

Phoebe Cary

#16. Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

Alice Cary

#17. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Joyce Cary

#18. I needed a large glass of chardonnay and a larger dose of Cary Grant.

Tracy Kiely

#19. 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

#20. We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

Phillip Cary

#21. 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

#22. He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can ...

Alice Cary

#23. The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

Joyce Cary

#24. The Crimson Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Black Pirate, Adventures of Don Juan, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sea Hawk, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche,

Cary Elwes

#25. My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.

Cary Fukunaga

#26. O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

Phoebe Cary

#27. There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

Phoebe Cary

#28. Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Cary Elwes

#29. I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#30. The problem with being a writer/director: unless you're really disciplined, you start adding projects, and you have to make time to make them. Because you have to write them ... no one else is writing them for me.

Cary Fukunaga

#31. My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Cary Grant

#32. I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

Cary Grant

#33. The Academy of the Sword (1630) by the Flemish master Gerard Thibault d

Cary Elwes

#34. Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

Cary Fukunaga

#35. 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

#36. Anyway, at a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant.

Carrie Fisher

#37. To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Cary Grant

#38. The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

Joe Pantoliano

#39. I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'

Cary Fukunaga

#40. I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.

Cary Fukunaga

#41. 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

#42. I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.

Cary Fukunaga

#43. Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.

Jennifer Grant

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.

Cary Cooper

#47. I want to have a nice country home one day, yeah.

Cary Fukunaga

#48. Indonesia is home to the cobra burger, which isn't just a catchy name: it's made with real cobra meat.

Cary McNeal

#49. My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

Cary Fukunaga

#50. True worth is being not seeming

Alice Cary

#51. With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress that I thought it would have been really nice to spend more time with - to spend with the characters.

Cary Fukunaga

#52. I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

Kate Cary

#53. You have nothing with which to bargain. You can offer Jesus only one thing - belief. He simply asks, "Do you believe in Me?

Cary Schmidt

#54. But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

Phoebe Cary

#55. 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.

Cary Grant

#56. The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

Alice Cary

#57. There are many, many ways to be imprisoned. You don't need fences, handcuffs, chains, or steel bars. Your heart or your own mind can imprison you within yourself. Another human being can imprison you with their actions and thoughts.

Cary Allen Stone

#58. like a good wine without iocane powder, it seems to get better with time.

Cary Elwes

#59. I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

Cary Elwes

#60. 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

#61. Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Cary Grant

#62. I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them.

Cary Grant

#63. 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

#64. People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#65. The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.

Cary McNeal

#66. Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

Cary Elwes

#67. In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves. This is the only city I've ever lived in where I eat out every night.

Cary Fukunaga

#68. Quit looking at me like that or I swear I'm going to spank that pretty little mouth of yours with my lips," said Jack in a tone only Kate could hear.

Cary West

#69. True strength is measured by patience, ability and compassion, never simply brute force.

Cary Washington

#70. It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

Joyce Cary

#71. 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

#72. Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Cary Grant

#73. The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

Joyce Cary

#74. God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

Joyce Cary

#75. 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

#76. When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

Jennifer Grant

#77. We had a really fun time working together on the film. With myself as a pirate. And she as a fair maiden. Running off together in the spirit of love and adventure.

Cary Elwes

#78. Something you have to make ... It's all work, work.

Joyce Cary

#79. I was tanned, happy, and blowing a kiss to Cary, who'd playacted the role of a highfashion
photographer by calling out ridiculous encouragements. Beautiful, dahling. Show me sassy. Show me sexy. Brilliant.
Show me catty ... rawr ...

Sylvia Day

#80. When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

Cary Grant

#81. I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

Kyle MacLachlan

#82. I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Cary Elwes

#83. For every dollar you spend on food, 19 cents goes to the actual food, while the other 81 cents goes to marketing and packaging.

Cary McNeal

#84. Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Joyce Cary

#85. My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

Alan Alda

#86. 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

#87. I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Cary Fukunaga

#88. I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Cary Fukunaga

#89. I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

Virginia Cary Hudson

#90. For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Joyce Cary

#91. How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.

Alice Cary

#92. 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

#93. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#94. My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.

Cary Fukunaga

#95. 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

#96. When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.

Cary Fukunaga

#97. Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Cary Grant

#98. Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

Lorene Cary

#99. I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.

Cary Fukunaga

#100. I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

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