Irene Dunne

"Strange as it may seem to those who have read much of the screwball side of Hollywood life, I have never had to fight against an impulse to jump into a swimming-pool while dressed for the opera."

"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."

"I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me."

"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 …"

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

"A honeymoon is wonderful, of course. It's the time two people go off alone and do their utmost to remain alone. Not only because they are so new and exciting to each other. But because it's their chan…"

"Hollywood is fond of gushing chit-chat as any other town."

"That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting. Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susce…"