Cary Grant Quotes

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

 I improve on misquotation.

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.

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

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.

I think most of us become actors because we want affection, love and applause.

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!

They all repeat the rumors that I'm a tightwad and that I'm a homosexual. Now I don't feel that either of those is an insult, but it's all nonsense.

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

I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

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

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

Actors today try to avoid comedy because if you write a comedy that's not a success, the lack of success is immediately apparent because the audience is not laughing. A comedy is a big risk. This is a tremendously costly business and to put money into a picture that might not come off -- oh, that's pretty risky.

...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?

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

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.

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

 I have nothing against gays, I'm just not one myself.

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

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

I think making love is the best form of exercise.

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