...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? |
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. |
Divorce is a game played by lawyers. |
Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order. |
Everyone wants to be |
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. |
I improve on misquotation. |
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! |
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. |
I think that making love is the best form of exercise |
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. |
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.' |
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. |
North by Northwest. |
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. |