“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”

— Cary Grant

As quoted in "Quotable Cary" at American Masters (25 May 2005) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/cary-grant/quotable-cary/618/

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British-American film and stage actor 1904–1986

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