Cary Grant
Cary Grant
Cary Grantwas a British-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his transatlantic accent, light-hearted approach to acting and comic timing, and debonair demeanor. He became an American citizen in 1942...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 January 1904
CityHorfield, England
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
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!