Cary Grant
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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.
Cary Grant · interview
A late reflection on his five marriages.
Quoted in Marc Eliot, Cary Grant: A Biography (2004), ch. 33; no contemporaneous publication cited.