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“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 · interview · Motion Picture
On the split between the name he was born with and the one he invented.
'Love – That's All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About,' Motion Picture, June 1964.
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