“No one can hurt me—that’s my job.”

A.Word.A.Day (Jan 17, 2011) http://wordsmith.org/words/intromit.html

Middlebury College Address (2004)

Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Context: I used to hide behind the façade that was Cary Grant … I didn’t know if I were Archie Leach, or Cary Grant, and I wasn’t taking any chances. … Another thing I had to cure myself of was the desire for adulation, and the approbation of my fellow man. It started when I was a small boy and played football at school. If I did well they cheered me. If I fumbled I was booed. It became very important to me to be liked. It’s the same in the theater, the applause and the laughter give you courage and the excitement to go on. I thought it was absolutely necessary in order to be happy. Now I know how it can change, just like that. They can be applauding you one moment, and booing you the next. The thing to know is that you have done a good job, then it doesn’t hurt to be criticized. My press agent was very indignant over something written about me not too long ago. “Look,” I told him. “I’ve known this character for many years, and the faults he sees in me are really the faults in himself that he hates.”

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 26, The Sheep Professor

Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008

Interview, Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-champ,1,6374128.story?page=3, (1997-05-04)

One Taste (2000)

Variant: The fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: The Green Mile