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“Let me tell you something. I am not a father figure. I am not an uncle figure, or a brother or a cousin figure. In fact, the only figure I intend being is a total stranger figure.”
Cary Grant as Walter Eckland · 1964 · film · Father Goose (1964)
Eckland resists the schoolgirls stranded on his island. Grant took the part specifically to play against his own glamour.
Spoken as Walter Eckland in Father Goose (1964).
On the same subject.
“Judy, Judy, Judy.”
Cary Grant · 1939
“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
Cary Grant · 1958
“I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”
Cary Grant · 1958
“The film I most cared about was a flop. None But the Lonely Heart was the only time I played a character very near myself, a man unsure of himself, a drifter, a rake.”
Cary Grant · 1980