Irene Dunne Quotes

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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.

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People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.

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I'm not going to worry any more. It isn't worth it. Look at 'Show Boat.' I worried myself sick over it. I knew the public wouldn't like it. But they do and it has broken all kind of records. Yes, I decided while I was in Europe this summer that I'd never worry again. I shall laugh blithely all through 'Theodora Goes Wild.' That's the picture I'm doing now for Columbia, you know. It's different from anything I've ever done before, and it's a comedy, and I'm going to laugh and be gay and never give a thought to worry.

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If I began today, I would certainly remember that by becoming a movie actress one automatically becomes vulnerable in the matter of gossip.

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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.

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Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.

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Never on any golf course have I been approached by a policeman who said, Lady, you can't play with an ordinary golf ball. You're movie star. You'll have to use a coconut for a ball.

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Fans hate a hypocrite. I believe they detect the real you behind every role and if they are led to believe you are something you pretend you aren't, they resent it.

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I always demanded respect. I came prepared and expected others to do the same.

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When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.

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There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

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Father drove fifty miles each evening behind his spanking team of horses to keep his date with the Southern girl - carefully chaperoned by FOUR maiden aunts.

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I don't give my phone number to strangers. It's Plaza 5048.

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Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!

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It doesn't hurt any of us to remember that Hollywood isn't at all impressed by anyone who has the fantastic illusion that the town must revolve around him.

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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.

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Any young girl aspiring to a theatrical career held Florenz Ziegfeld in a awe.

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That's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.

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You'll be much better equipped for a long life in pictures if you have a sound theatrical background.

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You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.

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No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.

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It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.

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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.

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Ever since the first day I arrived in this town, the general impression has been that I'm like a queen holding court on chosen days.

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Ever since my United Nations work, for instance, they've been saying that I've gone into politics. The United Nations is a nonpolitical body.

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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.

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This is an amazing business, creative and mechanical at the same time.

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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.

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I couldn't advise others to try such a long distance marriage, but for us it works perfectly. We are three thousand miles apart, it is true, but the big thing is that we each have our careers without interference from the other. My husband can't leave his practice and I can't leave Hollywood, but neither of us has any thought of giving up either the career or each other. Some day we shall again live in our 'honeymoon' apartment - but in the meantime, for us, this is the best possible way.

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No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father.

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