Gene Tierney Quotes

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

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.

There are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

She's another Deanna Durbin,' [Harry] Cohn said, 'except that she can't sing.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.

I always tried to play my hunches.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

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?

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

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

That strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

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.

We Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

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.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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.

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.

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.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.