Quotes from Irene Dunne

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

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

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

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

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'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

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

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.

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