Best 15 quotes of Irene Dunne on MyQuotes

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 always believed in my characters. I lived them

I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more fun! I think we were a successful team because we enjoyed working together tremendously, and that pleasure must have shown through onto the screen. I will always remember two compliments he made me. He said I had perfect timing in comedy and that I was the sweetest smelling actress he ever worked with.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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