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“I’ve spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant, unsure of each, suspecting each.”
Cary Grant · 1963 · memoir · Ladies' Home Journal
From his autobiographical writing on identity and the invented self.
Ladies' Home Journal, autobiographical series, 1963.
On the same subject.
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant
“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
“I used to hide behind the façade that was Cary Grant… I didn’t know if I were Archie Leach, or Cary Grant, and I wasn’t taking any chances.”
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