“Ah, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie. There’s only the expedient exaggeration.”
On the same subject.
“On The Awful Truth we just clicked. She’d been a weepie star and comedy was strange to her... She was the sweetest smelling of my leading ladies and such a lady.”
Cary Grant · 1980
“I’ve been called the longest lasting young man about town. It’s ridiculous for a man in his ’fifties: but then until thirty-five a man is often a self-centered idiot. After 35, he should try to begin to make more sense. I know I was impossible before 35; I’m hardly possible now.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“My press agent was very indignant over something written about me not too long ago. ‘Look,’ I told him. ‘I’ve known this character for many years, and the faults he sees in me are really the faults in himself that he hates.’”
Cary Grant · 1964
“I still want to go on making pictures until I’m dead . . . or longer.”
Cary Grant · 1961