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“The world changes, but two things remain constant: youth and beauty. They’re really one and the same thing. Not everybody — the only people who grow old were born old to begin with.”
Cary Grant as Dudley · 1947 · film · The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Dudley on ageing, spoken by an actor who would be accused of never doing it.
Spoken as Dudley in The Bishop's Wife (1947).
On the same subject.
“I often think my life has been a failure. But whenever I drop into a theater and hear women laugh at one of my films, I think, well, if I brightened their day before they went home and did the dishes, maybe my life wasn’t wasted, after all.”
Cary Grant · 1969
“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
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant
“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