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Memorable Quotations:

• "I'll never let you lose me, Jim." --as Anna Stanley in NO OTHER WOMAN (1933).
• "I've seen your picture in the paper and wondered what you looked like." --as Lucy Warriner in THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937).
• "Well, is there anything wrong in liking a man who's sane and considerate?  I was married to one who was insane and inconsiderate." --as Lucy Warriner in THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937).
• "I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs." --as Lucy Warriner in THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937).
• "I think you could make a lot of money just staying away from people." --as Margaret Garrett in JOY OF LIVING (1938).
• "I want to chug what I want to chug when I want to chug it." --as Margaret Garrett in JOY OF LIVING (1938).
• "My father used to say, 'Wishes are the dreams we dream when we're awake.'  He used to drink a lot." --as Terry McKay in LOVE AFFAIR (1939).
• "My father used to say, 'It's a funny thing, but the things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.'" --as Terry McKay in LOVE AFFAIR (1939).
• "A life is really a very, very long time, Margaret, when you look back to when you were young." --as Susan Dunn Ashwood in THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (1944).
• "God will never forgive us if we break faith with our dead again." --as Susan Dunn Ashwood in THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (1944).
• "The Bible was not written by men of science; it was written by men of faith.  It was their explanation of the miracle of creation which is just as great a miracle whether if took six days or many centuries.  I think science does not contradict the Bible.  It has only made us more aware how great the miracle was." --as Anna Leonowens in ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM (1946).
• "I wouldn't get mixed up with popcorn, Clarence.  It's too indigestible." --as Vinnie Day in LIFE WITH FATHER (1947).
• "Is good." --as Mama Hansen in I REMEMBER MAMA (1948).
• "All things you must learn, even if you have the gift." --as Mama Hansen in I REMEMBER MAMA (1948).

Further Reading:

• Irene Dunne: First Lady of Hollywood by Wes D. Gehring (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003).
• Irene Dunne: a bio-bibliography by Margie Schultz (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).
• Fast-talking dames by Maria DiBattista (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001).

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