Gene Tierney Quotes (68 Quotes)


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

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

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

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

    I used up every cent I earned as an actress.


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

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

    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.

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

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

    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.

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

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

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

    The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school

    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

    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?

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

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

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

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

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

    I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    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.


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