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No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.

— Irene Dunne If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)

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Tackling one thing at a time, I have managed better than I would have thought possible.

You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.

Fans hate a hypocrite. I believe they detect the real you behind every role and if they are led to believe you are something you pretend you aren't, they resent it.

Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.

They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.

How To Get Along In Hollywood (1948)

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