Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Said after his own retirement from film, in his later years. Perhaps reflecting an appreciation that he, himself, must now be counted among those who envied the iconic “Cary Grant persona” of His Girl Friday. And that this was a character that he, then, could no longer portray?
Ironically, by virtue of having made this observation, himself, I think he evidences an ongoing command of that very thing he claims to have lost.