Quotes By 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 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
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
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
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Gene Tierney
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.
Gene Tierney
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
Gene Tierney
I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
Gene Tierney
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Gene Tierney
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney