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“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 · memoir · Ladies' Home Journal
On the distance between his Bristol childhood and his later fortune.
Ladies' Home Journal, autobiographical series, 1963.
On the same subject.
“I was born in the provincial city of Bristol, England, but have avidly frequented the brightest capitals of the world ever since, and now keep a permanent residence in the so-called, though misnamed, glamour capital of Hollywood.”
Cary Grant · 1963
“It always amazes me that those who fight for the luxuries of life are the first to resent those who have them.”
Cary Grant · 1964
“I suppose the fact is I love feeling free inside even better than I love you, Julia.”
Cary Grant as Johnny Case · 1938
“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