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. - Irene Dunne

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.

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

I couldn't advise others to try such a long distance marriage, but for us it works perfectly. We are three thousand miles apart, it is true, but the big thing is that we each have our careers without interference from the other. My husband can't leave his practice and I can't leave Hollywood, but neither of us has any thought of giving up either the career or each other. Some day we shall again live in our 'honeymoon' apartment - but in the meantime, for us, this is the best possible way.