84 Quotes by Cary Grant

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

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

I know that, all my life, I've been going around in a fog. You're just a bunch of molecules until you know who you are. You spend your time getting to be a big Hollywood actor. But then what? You've reached a comfortable plateau, and you want to stay on it; you resist change. One day, after many weeks of LSD, my last defense crumbled. To my delight, I found I had a tough inner core of strength. In my youth, I was very dependent upon older men and women. Now people come to me for help!

There must be something between us, even if it’s only an ocean.

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.

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