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“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 · memoir · Ladies' Home Journal
The opening lines of his autobiography, written in his own hand for the magazine.
Ladies' Home Journal, autobiographical series, 1963.
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