Quotes By Gene Tierney

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

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

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

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

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.

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

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

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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

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