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DisputedCommonly credited to Cary Grant; the attribution does not hold up.
“I improve on misquotation.”
On the attribution
No interview, article, or broadcast has ever been produced for this line. It appears only in quotation compilations from the 2000s onward, usually paired with the genuine screen line 'Insanity runs in my family,' and reads as a later invention riffing on how often Grant was misquoted.
On the same subject.
“Old Cary Grant fine. How you?”
Cary Grant · 1959
“I refuse to discuss my private life and my friendships and my family, present, past and future.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“It took time to be accepted; it almost took twenty years until I got to be like a well-advertised brand of tea. Housewives bought that kind rather than take a chance on a brand they are not familiar with.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“Because I just went GAY all of a sudden!”
Cary Grant as David Huxley · 1938