Irene Dunne Quotes
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There are worse things in life than being called a lady.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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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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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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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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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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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.
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And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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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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Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.
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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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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
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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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That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting. Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.
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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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Any young girl aspiring to a theatrical career held Florenz Ziegfeld in a awe.
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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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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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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.