Irene Dunne Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

My private life is quiet.

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

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

Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

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.

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

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.

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.