Irene Dunne Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

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

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.

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

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