Quotes By 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.

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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