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AttributedWidely reported and consistent with the record, but not yet traced to a primary source.
“Every one of my wives left me. I don’t know why, maybe they got bored, tired of me. I don’t know. Maybe I was making the mistake of thinking that each of my wives was my mother, that there would never be a replacement once she left.”
On the same subject.
“Acting is a matter of hiding what you have to show and showing what you have to hide.”
Cary Grant
“You mean nothing must interfere with your work? Our marriage must entail no domestic entanglements of any kind.”
Cary Grant as David Huxley · 1938
“This is a very strange love affair.”
Cary Grant as T. R. Devlin · 1946
“I suppose the fact is I love feeling free inside even better than I love you, Julia.”
Cary Grant as Johnny Case · 1938