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“Well, on the contrary, the process of turning a man into a woman is enormously complicated, but I’ll do my best.”
Cary Grant as Capt. Henri Rochard · 1949 · film · I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Rochard accepts his disguise. Grant played the whole film straight-faced, which is why it works.
Spoken as Capt. Henri Rochard in I Was a Male War Bride (1949).
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