Cary Grant Quotes - Page 2

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

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

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

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.

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.

I improve on misquotation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

...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?

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.

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

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

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.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

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