Irene Dunne Quotes

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Our home in Louisville, Kentucky, where I was born on December 20, was one of great happiness.

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In addition to actual dramatic training and experience, I'd want as much education as possible.

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A honeymoon is wonderful, of course. It's the time two people go off alone and do their utmost to remain alone. Not only because they are so new and exciting to each other. But because it's their chance to draw closer and prepare for the intimacy of the every day married life which lies ahead of them. However, feverishly romantic though it may be, it's also apt to be something of a strain. Because the two people haven't yet learned to relax with each other. Because they haven't had time to become truly good friends. Because they don't know all the little things about each other which only the intimacy and affectionate understanding of years brings.

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There are worse things in life than being called a lady.

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How do I remain what is called "normal"? Because for me it's the natural thing to do, and therefore easier than doing something else.

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If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.

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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.

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Tackling one thing at a time, I have managed better than I would have thought possible.

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I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me.

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Usually marriages break up because people won't take the trouble to get through the middle breakfasts. It's no trick to get through the first breakfasts, when love is new and there are bows on the eggs. And once the middle breakfasts are over the last breakfasts, when plenty of allowances have been made on both sides and an understanding friendship and deep love have been established, are a joy forever.

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Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget.

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I did all my fighting before the film started. I fought for the best director, the best lighting man. I was always conscious of how I looked.

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Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.

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Strange as it may seem to those who have read much of the screwball side of Hollywood life, I have never had to fight against an impulse to jump into a swimming-pool while dressed for the opera.

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Hollywood is fond of gushing chit-chat as any other town.

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Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.

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