Gene Tierney Quotes

"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Mother, Sister, Brother, Europe, First, Months, World)

"When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Dream, Man)

"We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: People, Europe, Numbers)

"Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie."
- Gene Tierney

"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Life, Order, Trying)

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Career)

"When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: God, Light, Secrets)

"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Beauty, Wealth, Fame)

"Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses."
- Gene Tierney

"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Addiction)

"Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Women, Cause, Hollywood, Problems)

"For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Judgment, Question, Years)

"Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Actors, Sense)

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Eyes, Hollywood, Teenage)

"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Behavior)

"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Talent, Being, Day, Talk)

"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Money, Sons)

"As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Emotion)

"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Career)

"I always tried to play my hunches."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Play)

"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: People, Children)

"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Mother, Talk)

"I was not cut out to be a rebel."
- Gene Tierney

"I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Work, Fathers, Hard work)

"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Life, Nature, Charm)

"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Years)

"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Mother, Clothes, Hollywood)

"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: War, Americans, Europe, Leading, Months, Nothing, Ocean, Talk, Trouble, World, World war)

"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Disease)

"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Time, Actors, Fashion)

"I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging."
- Gene Tierney

"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Men, Doubt)

"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Life, Tides)

"Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen."
- Gene Tierney

"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Women, Heart, Cure)

"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Hollywood)

"The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Change)

"The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Daughter, Feelings, Cause, Difficulties, Tragedy)

"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Job, Word)

"There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Time, Day, Rest)

"Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: History, Pain)

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Houses)

"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Faults, Jealousy)

"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Interest, Man, Romantic)

"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Departure, Hollywood)

"I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Men, Work)

"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Home)

"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Men, Fun)

"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Reflection)

"I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Mind, Prison, World)

"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Diet, Living, Years)

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Birthday, Hollywood)

"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Home, People, Hollywood)

"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Family, Job)

"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Now)

"I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Time, War, Cause, United)

"I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself."
- Gene Tierney

"I used up every cent I earned as an actress."
- Gene Tierney

"I simply did not want my face to be my talent."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Talent, Want)

"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Excuses, Mistakes, Woman)

"I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Act)

"I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Hollywood, Years)

"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Eye)

"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Future, Past)

"I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Nothing, Now)

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Father, Luck)