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“I was born in the provincial city of Bristol, England, but have avidly frequented the brightest capitals of the world ever since, and now keep a permanent residence in the so-called, though misnamed, glamour capital of Hollywood.”
Cary Grant · 1963 · memoir · Ladies' Home Journal
Describing his origins at the start of the autobiography.
Ladies' Home Journal, autobiographical series, 1963.
On the same subject.
“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
“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
“Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“I’ve had a lot of fine offers, but I’m cautious. I’d rather make one good picture a year than three indifferent ones.”
Cary Grant · 1937