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“Do your job and demand your compensation — but in that order.”
On the same subject.
“My present status in the motion picture industry is wonderful for my ego. But notice, I don’t say it can’t change.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“My father made no more than a modest living and we had little money. Yet today I am considered, except among the wealthy, to be wealthy.”
Cary Grant · 1963
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant
“I learned everything from Mae West - well not quite everything, but almost everything. She knew so much. Her instinct was so true, her timing was perfect, her grasp of situations so right.”
Cary Grant · 1961