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The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. -- John Updike
I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest. -- Jean Arthur
Cary and I are working together on another movie, Charlotte's Web. -- Thomas Haden Church
I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant. -- Peggy Lee
Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met. -- Jayne Mansfield
The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant. -- Joe Pantoliano
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. -- Aaron Eckhart
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life. -- Alfred Hitchcock
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something. -- Aaron Eckhart
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando. -- Gene Kelly
I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman. -- Tim Roth
Der am öffentlichsten verführte Mann [Cary Grant], den die Welt je kannte. -- Kael, Pauline
Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal. -- Jennifer Grant
I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph. -- David Hasselhoff
Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you. -- Audrey Meadows
I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213 -- Sylvia Day
Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama. -- Steve Guttenberg
I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him. -- George Hamilton
I can't bail out on Cary," I said apologetically, turning to face him. "Chicks before dicks and all that. -- Sylvia Day
Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello. -- Red Buttons
No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant. -- Rita Rudner
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. -- Lauren Bacall
Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch." -- Lauren Bacall
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind. -- Michiel Huisman
Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? -- Richard Russo
There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down. -- Louis Jourdan
Dem fabelhaften Cary Grant gibt man keine Regieanweisung. Man stellt ihn einfach vor die Kamera und überlässt es dem Publikum, sich mit ihm zu identifizieren. -- Hitchcock, Alfred
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that -- Tony Goldwyn
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that. -- Tony Goldwyn
How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy. -- Lauren Bacall
He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all. -- Jennifer Grant
I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant. -- Peter Guber
Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine. -- Claudia Gray
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences. -- Giles Foden
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph. -- Alan Alda
A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant. -- Pierce Brosnan
The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too. -- Ray Wise
My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name. -- Jennifer Grant
There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi. -- Alfred Molina
I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! -- Alan Alda
I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father. -- Jennifer Grant
I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. -- Dennis Farina
Cary Grant ist ein großartiger Komiker, ein Meister der leichten Komödie. Er sieht sehr gut aus, aber er ist auch sehr witzig. Diese Kombination ist umwerfend, und deshalb ist er schon so lange ein Star. -- Capra, Frank
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history. -- Audrey Meadows
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings. -- David Hockney
I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room. -- Tom Wolfe
If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids. -- Tom Conti
I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant. -- Kyle MacLachlan
In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye. -- Karolyn Grimes
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for. -- Peter Temple
That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion. -- Cassandra Clare
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for. -- Peter Temple
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you. -- Andre Benjamin
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure. -- Fay Wray
A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon. -- Tom Ford
When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema. -- Nicolas Roeg
Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be. -- Fay Wray
Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?' -- Rob Lowe
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do. -- Hugh Grant
Cary Grant was on the back lot one time doing a movie called "North by Northwest." I would see Cary outside the stage, and he would sit on a set chair and had one of those reflectors. He wanted this tan so he didn't have to use makeup. -- George Hamilton
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife. -- Neil LaBute
Jeder wäre gerne Cary Grant. Sogar ich wäre gerne Cary Grant. -- Grant, Cary
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. -- Cary Grant
I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant -- Cary Grant
Der am öffentlichsten verführte Mann [Cary Grant], den die Welt je kannte. -- Kael, Pauline
Dem fabelhaften Cary Grant gibt man keine Regieanweisung. Man stellt ihn einfach vor die Kamera und überlässt es dem Publikum, sich mit ihm zu identifizieren. -- Hitchcock, Alfred
Ich habe den größten Teil meines Lebens damit verbracht, zwischen Archie Leach und Cary Grant hin- und herzupendeln. Bei keinem fühlte ich mich sicher, beiden misstraute ich. -- Grant, Cary
Cary Grant ist ein großartiger Komiker, ein Meister der leichten Komödie. Er sieht sehr gut aus, aber er ist auch sehr witzig. Diese Kombination ist umwerfend, und deshalb ist er schon so lange ein Star. -- Capra, Frank

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