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“I’m reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes: it’s better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.”
On the same subject.
“The world changes, but two things remain constant: youth and beauty. They’re really one and the same thing. Not everybody — the only people who grow old were born old to begin with.”
Cary Grant as Dudley · 1947
“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 suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
Cary Grant · 1958
“Elsie Mendl was a great friend of mine for many, many years. And I remember the creed by which she lived: Never complain, never explain.”
Cary Grant · 1964