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AttributedWidely reported and consistent with the record, but not yet traced to a primary source.
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
Cary Grant · 1963 · interview
His most-quoted line about the distance between Archibald Leach and the persona he built; repeated by Grant in interviews across the 1960s and 1970s.
Grant's best-known remark, in circulation since the 1960s and quoted in Marc Eliot's Cary Grant: A Biography (2004). No dated primary interview has ever been produced for it.
On the same subject.
“Judy, Judy, Judy.”
Cary Grant · 1939
“I received only a sketchy education by most scholastic standards, lacked confidence and the courage to enjoy life, but on the screen seem to have successfully epitomized an informed, capable and happy man. A series of contradictions too evident to be coincidental.”
Cary Grant · 1963
“I refuse to discuss my private life and my friendships and my family, present, past and future.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“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