Gene Tierney Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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.

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

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

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

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

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

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

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

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

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

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

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

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.

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