Elaine Dundy
Elaine Dundy
Elaine Dundywas an American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress and playwright...
curiosity want answers
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.
blessed destiny stories
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.
banquets spectators disinterested
... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.
real fate thinking
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.
hate world next
I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.
acting actors acting-from-actors
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
mean night acting
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.
cynicism darling young
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
rowdy bunch individualistic
A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.
use remember pleasant
What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.