“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.”

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

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

“My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.”

“Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I.”

“I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.”

“The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.”