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“No money, no material reward is comparable to the praise, the shouts of well done and accompanying pat on the back of one’s fellowman.”
Cary Grant · 1963 · memoir · Ladies' Home Journal
Recalling schoolboy applause, and the applause that followed it for the rest of his life.
Ladies' Home Journal, autobiographical series, 1963.
On the same subject.
“I’ll beg, I’ll borrow, I’ll — please, Judge, I’ll sell anything I’ve got until I get going again. And she’ll never go hungry, she’ll never be without clothes, not so long as I’ve got two good hands, so help me!”
Cary Grant as Roger Adams · 1941
“High comedy and polished words, that’s the hardest to write and to act but it’s the best. And it lasts the longest, too.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“I do it because I enjoy it. That’s reason enough, isn’t it?”
Cary Grant · 1986
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant