I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people. Elaine Dundy More Quotes by Elaine Dundy More Quotes From Elaine Dundy I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. Elaine Dundy mirrors writing The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever! Elaine Dundy young forever world I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. Elaine Dundy humorous funny mean Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. Elaine Dundy acting-from-actors actors acting That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time. Elaine Dundy curiosity answers want I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up. Elaine Dundy next hate world At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some. Elaine Dundy fate real thinking ... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. Elaine Dundy banquets disinterested spectators To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror. Elaine Dundy destiny blessed stories It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one. Elaine Dundy crazy real mean It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you. Elaine Dundy persons knows people What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life. Elaine Dundy complaining doe character Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it. Elaine Dundy darling cynicism young A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable. Elaine Dundy rowdy whole bunch What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. Elaine Dundy pleasant use remember I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous. Elaine Dundy behave people The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way? Elaine Dundy vehemence principles way I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives. Elaine Dundy benefits mind people To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. Elaine Dundy to-love great self love
