Quotes About Cary Grant

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Tracy Kiely

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

Cary Grant

#5. 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

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

Joe Pantoliano

#7. 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

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

Cary Grant

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

Lauren Bacall

#14. Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

Steve Guttenberg

#15. Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

Red Buttons

#16. Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

Fay Wray

#17. When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.

Nicolas Roeg

#18. 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

#19. I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.

Jean Arthur

#20. 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

#21. The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

Michiel Huisman

#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. 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

#24. Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.

Jayne Mansfield

#25. 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

#26. Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Aaron Eckhart

#27. A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon.

Tom Ford

#28. I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Aaron Eckhart

#29. To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.

Reid Scott

#30. 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

#31. If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Gene Kelly

#32. A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

Pierce Brosnan

#33. I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

Lauren Bacall

#34. 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

#35. I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

Tim Roth

#36. 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

#37. Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

Richard Russo

#38. I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph.

David Hasselhoff

#39. There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

Louis Jourdan

#40. 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

#41. The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.

Hugh Grant

#42. I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

Peter Guber

#43. My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.

Katharine Isabelle

#44. I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

George Hamilton

#45. Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I.

Cary Grant

#46. He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.

Jennifer Grant

#47. I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

Alan Alda

#48. Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'

Rob Lowe

#49. No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

Rita Rudner

#50. Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Audrey Meadows

#51. Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

Alfred Hitchcock

#52. If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Tom Conti

#53. I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

Peggy Lee

#54. Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.

Marisa De Los Santos

#55. How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy.

Lauren Bacall

#56. 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

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

Cary Grant

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

Cary Grant

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

Cary Grant

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

Jennifer Grant

#61. 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

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

Cary Grant

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

Cary Grant

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

Cary Grant

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

Cary Grant

#66. When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Cary Grant

#67. It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.

Cary Grant

#68. I'm a fatheaded guy, full of pain. It tore me up not having you.

Cary Grant

#69. There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Cary Grant

#70. It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Cary Grant

#71. Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Cary Grant

#72. I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.

Cary Grant

#73. Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Cary Grant

#74. 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.

Cary Grant

#75. Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

Cary Grant

#76. Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

Cary Grant

#77. 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.

Cary Grant

#78. 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

#79. Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

Cary Grant

#80. 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

#81. 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.

Cary Grant

#82. I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

Cary Grant

#83. Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

Cary Grant

#84. All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better

Cary Grant

#85. It's the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go.

Melville Shavelson

#86. A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Cary Grant

#87. 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.

Cary Grant

#88. 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.

Cary Grant

#89. 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

#90. There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

Cary Grant

#91. 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.

Cary Grant

#92. I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.

Cary Grant

#93. 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.

Cary Grant

#94. Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

Cary Grant

#95. I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

Cary Grant

#96. If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

Cary Grant

#97. Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Cary Grant

#98. 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.

Cary Grant

#99. We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Cary Grant

#100. 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.

Cary Grant