Gene Tierney Quotes (68 Quotes)

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I always tried to play my hunches.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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