Charade Quotes

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

Life is a masquerade.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

A humbug!!

I'm smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That's what gets people's attention; you act dumb, you get people's attention.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you're wearing a disguise.

A Wolf in Monk’s Robes

In 'Charade,' there was a big fight. George Kennedy was playing one of his first big heavy roles; he had a hook for a hand, and he was real ugly. Cary Grant was Cary Grant. They were on a slanted roof, a very exciting fight, and we agreed there shouldn't be any music, just the grunts and the action.

As cliche as it is, I was a huge Audrey Hepburn girl growing up.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

They are desperate for surrogates to get behind Trump, and they can't find anyone who has actually had genuine success who is willing to stand behind him. That is because he is all smoke and mirrors. We know he doesn't have all the money he claims he has.

I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a great hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

I'm just very good at pretending.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

It was really tiring always pretending to be someone else. Not my life, not my real name, nothing.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.