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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.

— Irene Dunne

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Source: This is Really Irene Dunne, by Sara Hamilton; Photoplay (April 1936).
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