“I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be...” — Elaine Dundy Half baked Copy Share Image
“[T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and… — Elaine Dundy America Copy Share Image
“I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?” — Elaine Dundy Frustration Copy Share Image
A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable. — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.” — elaine dundy Gossip Copy Share Image
“Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for--what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (--Sally Jay… — Elaine Dundy Librarian Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact I'd had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's… — Elaine Dundy Life Copy Share Image
“He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl’s account o… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that… — Elaine Dundy Despair Copy Share Image
“But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“I soon realized that one of the most important things to find while working in theater was someone to giggle with. To… — Elaine Dundy Flirt Copy Share Image
“If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after… — Elaine Dundy Actor Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.” — Elaine Dundy Crush Copy Share Image
“I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I… — Elaine Dundy Time Copy Share Image
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous. — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“…I looked at those patient huddlers on the [Embassy] benches who had hardly moved, and a horrible irony hit me: they wanted… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
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![“[T]he 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.” quote by Elaine Dundy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/571/elaine-dundy-10668_actor_t-he-question-actors-most-often-get-aske_539060.png)
![“…I looked at those patient huddlers on the [Embassy] benches who had hardly moved, and a horrible irony hit me: they wanted so badly to get into the States; I wanted so badly to stay out.” quote by Elaine Dundy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf8/elaine-dundy-10668_wanted-badly_i-looked-at-those-patient-huddlers-on-th_3089396.jpg)