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)
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. (Gene Tierney)
Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems. (Gene Tierney)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. (Gene Tierney)
I used up every cent I earned as an actress. (Gene Tierney)
I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. (Gene Tierney)
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me. (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)
In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening. (Gene Tierney)
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)
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 approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. (Gene Tierney)
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging. (Gene Tierney)
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. (Gene Tierney)
The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school (Gene Tierney)