Cary Grant Quotables

“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.”

“To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you are impotent; she can’t wait to disprove it.”

“I improve on misquotation.”

A reporter once asked him, “Who is Cary Grant? He replied: “When you find out, tell me.”

Here is part of his 1970 Honorary Oscar speech: “”You know that I may never look at this without remembering the quiet patience of directors who were so kind to me, who were kind enough to put up with me more than once, some of them even three or four times. I trust they and all the other directors, writers and producers and my leading women have forgiven me for what I didn’t know. You know that I’ve never been a joiner or a member of any particular social set, but I’ve been privileged to be a part of Hollywood’s most glorious era.”

A reporter in search of information wired Grant’s agent: “HOW OLD CARY GRANT?” Grant happened to read the message himself, and wired back “OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?”

And speaking of that tumbling in Holiday: