← The Quotebook
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“I’ve never been a joiner or a member of any particular social set, but I’ve been privileged to be a part of Hollywood’s most glorious era.”
On the same subject.
“I used to hide behind the façade that was Cary Grant… I didn’t know if I were Archie Leach, or Cary Grant, and I wasn’t taking any chances.”
Cary Grant · 1964
“I was a failure as a boy and became a success as a man because I always was and always will be Archibald Alexander Leach, only I became better at hiding it than he ever could.”
Cary Grant
“Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“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