Irene Dunne Quotes

#1. You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.

Leo McCarey

#2. It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

Charles Busch

#3. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.

Richard Corliss

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

Irene Dunne

#5. I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

H. G. Bissinger

#6. I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Irene Dunne

#7. Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.

Irene Dunne

#8. Tacky T-shirts that said things like "My crazy Grandma traveled to India and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." They

Chris Colfer

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

Irene Dunne

#10. On page six his eyes fell on a large photograph of a wooden road sign with a sun cross painted on. Oslo 2,611 km, it said on one arm, Leningrad 5 km on the other. The article beneath was credited to Even

Jo Nesbo

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

Irene Dunne

#12. I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

Irene Dunne

#13. Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again.

Lee Wilkinson

#14. Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Larry Wall

#15. As a company dedicated to creating fun and affordable toys for children, everyone at Ty is proud to play a small part in helping children in need have a happy holiday. We are proud to be associated with Toys for Tots and congratulate our Marines for a job well done.

Ty Warner

#16. I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

Alicia Keys

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

Irene Dunne

#18. 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.

Irene Dunne

#19. I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

Damon Hill

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

Irene Dunne

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

Irene Dunne

#22. The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

Anton Chekhov

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

Irene Dunne

#24. Today is important only in light of what we do for God.

David Jeremiah

#25. The principle of [divine] purpose ... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks ... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered.

Ernst Boris Chain

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

Irene Dunne

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

Irene Dunne

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

Irene Dunne

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

Irene Dunne

#30. 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.

Irene Dunne