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“I want to know how I stand, where I fit into the picture, what it’s all going to mean to me. I can’t find that out sitting behind some desk in an office, so as soon as I get enough money together, I’m gonna knock off for a while.”
Cary Grant as Johnny Case · 1938 · film · Holiday (1938)
Johnny Case explains the holiday of the title — an argument Grant himself would make about his own retirement thirty years later.
Spoken as Johnny Case in Holiday (1938).
On the same subject.
“I’ve been called the longest lasting young man about town. It’s ridiculous for a man in his ’fifties: but then until thirty-five a man is often a self-centered idiot. After 35, he should try to begin to make more sense. I know I was impossible before 35; I’m hardly possible now.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“My father made no more than a modest living and we had little money. Yet today I am considered, except among the wealthy, to be wealthy.”
Cary Grant · 1963
“I do it because I enjoy it. That’s reason enough, isn’t it?”
Cary Grant · 1986
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant