Irene Dunne Quotes

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

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.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.