Gene Tierney Quotes

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

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

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.

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

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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

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

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

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

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.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

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

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

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

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

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

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

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

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

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

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

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

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

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.

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

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