Irene Dunne

"Usually marriages break up because people wont take the trouble to get through the middle breakfasts. Its no trick to get through the first breakfasts, when love is new and there are bows on the eggs. And once the middle breakfasts are over the last breakfasts, when plenty of allowances have been made on both sides and an understanding friendship and deep love have been established, are a joy forever."

"Im not going to worry any more. It isnt worth it. Look at Show Boat. I worried myself sick over it. I knew the public wouldnt like it. But they do and it has broken all kind of records. Yes, I decided while I was in Europe this summer that Id never worry again. I shall laugh blithely all through Theodora Goes Wild. Thats the picture Im doing now for Columbia, you know. Its different from anything Ive ever done before, and its a comedy, and Im going to laugh and be gay and never give a thought to worry."

"Ill never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! Ive had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers."

"Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection."

"The Irene I know is as vague as the absent-minded professor - and as adroit. She´s casual as a Noel Coward heroine and as conscientious as a Salvation Army missionary. She´s as fragile as Dresden and as strong as steel."

"You have no idea how it feels to know that youve cut someone to the quick. Ill never do it again, never, never."