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“In about a week, you’ll either collect or lose your shirt.”
Cary Grant as Geoff Carter · 1939 · film · Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Gallows humour after a fatal crash.
Spoken as Geoff Carter in Only Angels Have Wings (1939).
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 learned that you appreciate work most while you’re at leisure, and leisure while you’re at work. It’s like being married or single. You can’t be both at the same time.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant