Everyone wants to be – Cary Grant. Even I want to be – Cary Grant.
– Cary Grant
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent. She can’t wait to disprove it.
– Cary Grant
The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there’s no heavy lifting.
– Cary Grant
When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.
– Cary Grant
I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.
– Cary Grant
They all left me. I didn’t leave any of them. They all walked out on me. Maybe they just got
bored.
– Cary Grant, on his ex-wives
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are
unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
– Cary Grant
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
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one’s own past failings.
– Cary Grant
If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don’t bump into the other
actors.
– Cary Grant
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
– Cary Grant
I’m too busy living my life to write about it.
– Cary Grant, on his autobiography
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
There is a great misconception about LSD and a great deal to explain. I used it about 100
times before it became illegal.
– Cary Grant
Insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops.
– Cary Grant
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
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
– Cary Grant
I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.
– Cary Grant
Most women are instinctively wiser and emotionally more mature than men. They know our
insecurities. A man rushes about trying to prove himself. It takes him much longer to feel
comfortable about getting married.
– Cary Grant
I think making love is the best form of exercise.
– Cary Grant
I think most of us become actors because we want affection, love and applause.
– Cary Grant
Do your job and demand your compensation – but in that order.
– Cary Grant
I’m opposed to actors taking sides in public and spouting spontaneously about love, religion
or politics. I’m a mass of inconsistencies when it comes to politics.
– Cary Grant
There’s no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have
been denied the privilege.
– Cary Grant
I have spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and – Cary Grant,
unsure of each, suspecting each.
– Cary Grant
I’ve often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more
difficult than you’d suppose.
– Cary Grant