Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

...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?

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.