Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Irene Dunne

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

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

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

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.

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