Explore Quotes by Cary Grant

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.