Gene Tierney Quotes

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery. ~ Vincent Price

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

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. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

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. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. ~ 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

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

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. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

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

I always tried to play my hunches. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge. ~ Terence Stamp

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. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people. ~ Robert Osborne

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

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

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

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act. ~ Gene Tierney

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

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

All the arguments in the world and it boiled down to he couldn't let her come to harm because of him. Bloody chivalrous side, it would emerge at the most inopportune times.
Since when do I have fucking morals? And how do I get rid of them? Morals got in the way of violence and revenge. And Gene did so enjoy dishing out violent vengeance. ~ Eve Langlais

So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened?"

"Exactly."

"No quest for truth? Where's your spirit of exploration?"

"You never went to college, did you? ~ Gene Doucette

addition to the major types of cell that result from differentiation, similar processes can also alter the phenotype of terminally differentiated cells to subtly alter their functions. These different programmes of gene expression are often referred to as altered states of activation, or polarisation. ~ Clett Erridge

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.' ~ Gene Roddenberry

Those men who on the off-chance happened to be taller than her often had some genetic species-survival switch tripped in their brain that made them crave women on the opposite end of the height spectrum, to balance out the gene pool. ~ Sara King

It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher. ~ Gene Wolfe

Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. ~ John Steinbeck

Freckles never tired of studying the devotion of a fox mother to her babies. To him, whose early life had been so embittered by continual proof of neglect and cruelty in human parents toward their children, the love of these furred and feathered folk of the Limberlost was even more of a miracle than to the Bird Woman and the Angel. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words. ~ Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me. ~ Gene Luen Yang

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ~ Richard Dawkins

You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world. ~ Gene Robinson

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I've had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances. ~ Gene Hill

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time. ~ Gene Chandler

I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way. ~ Maura Tierney

It is evil," the Old Wise One said. "For very long we have walked carefree in the only paradise. It would be better if all here were to die." The last Shadow child said firmly, "Nothing is worse than that I should die," and something that had wrapped the world was gone. ~ Gene Wolfe

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable. ~ Gene Simmons

Our highest contribution is making this world peaceful and happy. That comes when we can radiate peace and harmony from every cell, gene and DNA of our body. ~ Amit Ray

Incidental by-products of alterations in other traits? Belyaev strongly leaned toward the latter view, because of a phenomenon known as "pleiotropy": a single gene affecting multiple traits. Pleiotropy means that selection - whether natural or artificial - for one trait can affect many others. This is why evolutionary biologists make a distinction between selection for and selection of.9 ~ Anonymous

Along with the punctuality gene, the liar gene had skipped out on me as well. I was officially the world's worst liar. I could've won and award for it. Whenever I tried to mimic a serious expression, I ended up looking like I was half-retarded ~ Rachel K. Burke

My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child. ~ James Gray

[T]he very existence of such powers argues a counterforce. We call powers of the first kind dark, though they may use a species of deadly light... and we call those of the second kind bright, though I think that they may at times employ darkness, as a good man nevertheless draws the curtains of his bed to sleep. Yet there is truth to the talk of darkness and light, because it shows plainly that one implies the other. The tale I read to little Severian said that the universe was but a long word of the Increate's. We, then, are syllables of that word. But the speaking of any word is futile unless there are other words, words that are not spoken. If a beast has but one cry, the cry tells nothing; and even the wind has a multitude of voices, so that those who sit indoors may hear it and know if the weather is tumultuous or mild. The powers we call dark seem to me to be the words the Increate did not speak... and these words must be maintained in a quasi-existence, if the other word, the word spoken is to be distinguished. What is not said can be important - but what is said is more important... And if the seekers after dark things find them, may not the seekers after bright find them as well? And are they not more apt to hand their wisdom on? ~ Gene Wolfe

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago
throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer. ~ Gene Roddenberry

Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool. ~ Mira Grant

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being. ~ Jeff Bezos

The past stood at my shoulder, naked and defenseless as all dead things, as though it were time itself that had been laid open by the fall of the mountain. ~ Gene Wolfe

When they reached her she stood on the path holding a pair of moths. Her eyes were wide with excitement , her cheeks pink, her red lips parted, and on the hand she held out to them clung a pair of delicate blue-green moths, with white bodies, and touches of lavender and straw colour. All about her lay flower-brocaded grasses, behind a deep green background of the forest, while the sun slowly sifted gold from heaven to burnish her hair. Mrs. Comstock heard a sharp breath behind her.
Oh, what a picture!" Exulted Ammon over sher shoulder. "She is absolutely and altogether lovely! Id give a small fortune for that faithfully set on canvas! ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

When changes in one genetic trait are the source of selection for changes in a second, the rate of response in the latter depends in parts on the rate of change in the former, which, as a rule, is not fast. In comparison, if a cultural practice modifies selection acting on human genetic variation, then the greater the proportion of individuals in the population that exhibit the cultural trait, the stronger the selection on the gene. As a consequence, the rapid spread of a cultural practice often leads quickly to the maximally strong selection of the advantageous genetic variant, which rapidly increases in frequency. Cultural practices typically spread more quickly than genetic mutations, simply because cultural learning typically operates at faster rates than biological evolution. What does the speed with which a culturla trait spreads depend upon? Answer: the fidelity of cultural transmission. The very factor that is critical to the emergence of complex cumulative culture in humans is also a major determinant of evolutionary responses to that culture. ~ Kevin N. Laland

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private. ~ Gene Simmons

Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that rendition was totally spoiled by the single Umpa-Lumpa multiplied by however many in computer graphics. Awful. ~ Phillip Tomasso III

Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk. ~ Gene Kranz

Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline. ~ Gene Weingarten

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book. ~ Gene Luen Yang

(As a side note: I thought money was a bad idea way back when it was first invented. I remember the moment very clearly. This guy owed me a sheep, but instead of giving me an actual sheep he gave me five coins he said were worth the same as a sheep. "But I can't eat round pieces of metal, asshole," were my exact words.) ~ Gene Doucette