Cary Grant Quotations

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

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

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.

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

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

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

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I was a fat-headed guy full of pain.

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.

I improve in misquotation.

Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.

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

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.

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.

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.

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.

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

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

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

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

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

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

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

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

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

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

I improve on misquotation.

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

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

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

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

It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

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

I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. ...He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

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

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

...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?

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

I know that, all my life, I've been going around in a fog. You're just a bunch of molecules until you know who you are. You spend your time getting to be a big Hollywood actor. But then what? You've reached a comfortable plateau, and you want to stay on it; you resist change. One day, after many weeks of LSD, my last defense crumbled. To my delight, I found I had a tough inner core of strength. In my youth, I was very dependent upon older men and women. Now people come to me for help!