Quotes By Gene Tierney
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
Gene Tierney
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.
Gene Tierney
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Gene Tierney
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
Gene Tierney
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Gene Tierney
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.
Gene Tierney
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.
Gene Tierney
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Gene Tierney
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
Gene Tierney
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
Gene Tierney
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Gene Tierney
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.
Gene Tierney
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
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 was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
Gene Tierney