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“Because I just went GAY all of a sudden!”
Cary Grant as David Huxley · 1938 · film · Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Huxley, caught in a marabou-trimmed negligee, explains himself. The line is widely cited as one of the first uses of the word in its modern sense in an American film.
Spoken as David Huxley in Bringing Up Baby (1938).
On the same subject.
“Judy, Judy, Judy.”
Cary Grant · 1939
“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
Cary Grant · 1958
“I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”
Cary Grant · 1958
“The film I most cared about was a flop. None But the Lonely Heart was the only time I played a character very near myself, a man unsure of himself, a drifter, a rake.”
Cary Grant · 1980