“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
This is a compressed, sharpened version of a documented 1971 remark to Look magazine: 'Everybody thinks I'm relaxed. I'm not relaxed at all. It's a very hard-working profession, this acting business, when you do it as I do it.' The tidier wording has no source.
On the same subject.
“I learned that you appreciate work most while you’re at leisure, and leisure while you’re at work. It’s like being married or single. You can’t be both at the same time.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“My name is Rochard. You’ll think I’m a bride but actually I’m a husband. There’ll be a moment or two of confusion but, if we all keep our heads, everything will be fine.”
Cary Grant as Capt. Henri Rochard · 1949
“Anyone can do well... It’s all out there waiting for you to take. But first you must reach out and get it. You must work for your riches. You cannot expect it to fall into your lap.”
Cary Grant · 1964
“For more than half my fifty-eight years I have cautiously peered from behind the facade of a man known as Cary Grant. The protection of that facade proved both an advantage and a disadvantage. If I couldn’t clearly see out, how could anyone see in?”
Cary Grant · 1963