Irene Dunne Quotes

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

But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.

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

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

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives ... and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country ... But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

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.

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

If we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.