Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

- Elaine Dundy

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

- Elaine Dundy

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 …

- Elaine Dundy

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

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

- Elaine Dundy

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

- Elaine Dundy

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 th…

- Elaine Dundy

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

- Elaine Dundy

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

- Elaine Dundy