“Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I have spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant; unsure of either, suspecting each. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”

— Cary Grant

Source: Quoted in "Cary Grant: A Biography" by Marc Eliot

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British-American film and stage actor 1904–1986

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