Gene Tierney Quotes

"Although she was beautiful in her films, they couldn`t quite capture all of her. Fortunately, I did, even if it was late in my life." - Spencer Tracy.

"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."

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

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

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

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

Children don`t understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

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

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

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

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

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

I always tried to play my hunches.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

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

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

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

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

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

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.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

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

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

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

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

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood`s rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

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.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

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.

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

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.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.