“I feel delighted and flattered, and I don’t think I deserve it.” — Cary Grant, 1981

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“I feel delighted and flattered, and I don’t think I deserve it.”

Cary Grant · 1981 · press · The Washington Post

His reaction to being named a Kennedy Center honoree.

Gary Arnold, "The Kennedy Center Honors", The Washington Post, 6 December 1981, quoting Grant by telephone from Los Angeles.

hollywood identity

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Cary Grant · 1964
“I was a failure as a boy and became a success as a man because I always was and always will be Archibald Alexander Leach, only I became better at hiding it than he ever could.”
Cary Grant
“Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“I loved working with Cary — every minute of it. Between takes he was so amusing with his cockney stories. I was his best audience. I laughed and laughed and laughed. The more I laughed, the more he went on.”
Irene Dunne