“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.”
Famous Cary Grant Quotes
- “Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.”
2. “One must always be careful with books and treasure them.”
3. “Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.”
4. “I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.”
5. “It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy.”
6. “Divorce is a game played by lawyers.”
7. “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.”
8. “Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.”
9. “It’s better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.”
10. “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.”
11. “Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.”
Cary Grant Quotes to Lift Your Spirits
12. “When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.”
13. “I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them.”
14. “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.”
15. “Do your job and demand your compensation – but in that order.”
16. “Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.”
17. “We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.”
18. “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.”
19. “To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent. She can’t wait to disprove it.”
20. “We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we colour it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.”
21. “It takes 500 small details to add up to one favourable impression.”
22. “I think that making love is the best form of exercise.” – Cary Grant Quotes
23. “If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don’t bump into the other actors.”
24. “I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”
25. “There must be something between us, even if it’s only an ocean.”
26. “If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don’t bump into the other actors.”
27. “Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.”
28. “You don’t belong with a grifter like me. You just got some mud on your dress, that’s all. Give it time, let it dry. It’ll brush off.”
29. “My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.”
30. “Dying’s tough – but not as tough as comedy.”
31. “I’ve often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you’d suppose.”
Cary Grant was an English-American actor who was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904, and died on November 29, 1986.
He was well-known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, dapper bearing, lighthearted acting style, and sense of humor.
He was undoubtedly one of the great leading men of old Hollywood. After being nominated twice for an Academy Award, he won the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981 and the Academy Honorary Award in 1970.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him as the second-greatest male star of Hollywood’s Golden Age.