Quotes By Gene Tierney

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 was not cut out to be a rebel.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

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

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

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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

I always tried to play my hunches.

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

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

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

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

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

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.