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“I wonder if audiences realize what is the hardest thing in the world - it is for every actor to be what you call ‘natural.’ Whenever I hear people say that Crosby or Gary Cooper just play themselves in pictures, I have to laugh. There is no such thing.”
Cary Grant · 1961 · essay · Films and Filming
Rebutting the idea that some actors merely play themselves.
'What it Means to be a Star,' Films and Filming, July 1961.
On the same subject.
“I still want to go on making pictures until I’m dead . . . or longer.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“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’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
“I learned everything from Mae West - well not quite everything, but almost everything. She knew so much. Her instinct was so true, her timing was perfect, her grasp of situations so right.”
Cary Grant · 1961