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I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour. -- Elaine Dundy
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He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl's account o how she avoided being kissed on the doorstep of her house once by wearing a flower in her hair and sticking it in her mouth when she said good night. Only I had no flower. -- Elaine Dundy
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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. -- Elaine Dundy
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Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment. -- Elaine Dundy
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To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him. -- Elaine Dundy
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Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for
what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (
Sally Jay Gorce) -- Elaine Dundy
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I love you. If you hadn't existed I would have had to invent you. -- Elaine Dundy
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It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young. -- Elaine Dundy
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He looked so - what was it that gave him his irresistible charm? He looked so accessible. That was it. A great simple truth struck me with surprise: charm is availability. -- Elaine Dundy
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[T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over. -- Elaine Dundy
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... 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. -- Elaine Dundy
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I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn't our century. -- Elaine Dundy
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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
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To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on. -- Elaine Dundy
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But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself. -- Elaine Dundy
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I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. -- Elaine Dundy
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That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikesme as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose. -- Elaine Dundy
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I thought of sex and sin; of my body and all the men in the world who would never sleep with it. -- Elaine Dundy
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As a matter of fact I'd had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that season. -- Elaine Dundy
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Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it. -- Elaine Dundy
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If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples. -- Elaine Dundy
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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
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It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins. -- Elaine Dundy
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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
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What's the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it's over. -- Elaine Dundy
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Tell her next time to look where she's going. -- Elaine Dundy
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. -- Elaine Dundy
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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
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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
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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
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No matter what you do you've got to try to do it well. Otherwise, it's unbearable. -- Elaine Dundy
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For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the critical dismay with which I first greet the sight of new places. -- Elaine Dundy
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I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase mere child. -- Elaine Dundy
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The shabbier the snobbier. -- Elaine Dundy
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I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training. -- Elaine Dundy
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Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it. -- Elaine Dundy
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It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst. -- Elaine Dundy
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He hated so many people I hardly know anyone any more -- Elaine Dundy
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I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. -- Elaine Dundy
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I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people. -- Elaine Dundy
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I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration? -- Elaine Dundy
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I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous. -- Elaine Dundy
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The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me speechless. -- Elaine Dundy
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I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up. -- Elaine Dundy
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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
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The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we're all going to live forever! -- Elaine Dundy
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I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and - hooray - they were going to listen. -- Elaine Dundy
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A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable. -- Elaine Dundy
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. -- Elaine Dundy